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Taco Metals LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Taco ranks #30,314 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 4 technology areas.

#30,314
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
25th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.8/100)
4.6
avg claims per patent
-20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30314 · US Corporation #30,314 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
  • MID-PACK #30,314/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Taisei
  • CPC-NARROW B63B · 4 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 27.8/100
  • CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.6 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DOWN -20% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Taisei Corporation (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Taco’s 27.8 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Taco

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Taco's Innovation Score is 27.8/100 (25th percentile of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Taco?

Each dot is one of Taco’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Taco’s own 4.6 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Taco vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 8.98.999.1 010203040 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Twentieth Century FOX Film Corporation - 9, 23Twentieth Century…TWO Cells Co., Ltd. - 9, 7.78TWO CellsTyto Care Ltd. - 9, 32Tyto CareTZU CHI University - 9, 11.11TZU CHI UniversityTaisei Corporation - 9, 11.56TaiseiTakara Bio Europe AB - 9, 17.11Takara Bio Europe…Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. - 9, 16.22Takeda Pharmaceut…Tangent Co., Ltd. - 9, 19.11TangentTaco Metals LLC - 9, 4.56Taco Metals
Taco vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Taco's grants concentrate

Taco Metals LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Taco sits between Twentieth Century FOX Film Corporation and Tangent Co., Ltd..

Taco's three-year grant acceleration

Taco Metals LLC shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Who files at Taco's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Taco holds 9 patents at rank #30,360, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Taco

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,360 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Taco's primary technology class.

Taco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

28 25th percentile higher than 25% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Taco Metals LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2016 4 44.4%
2019 1 11.1%
2021 1 11.1%
2022 1 11.1%
2023 1 11.1%
2024 1 11.1%

Which technologies does Taco Metals LLC patent most?

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Taco Metals LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Taco Metals LLC's lead technology class is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63B
  • Ranked #30,314 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Taco Metals LLC against Twentieth Century FOX Film Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 27.8/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page
  • USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
  • Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
  • USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.