Where does Taco Metals LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Taco Metals LLC ranks #30,314 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Taco Metals LLC hold?

Taco Metals LLC holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Taco Metals LLC's Innovation Score?

Taco Metals LLC has an Innovation Score of 27.8 out of 100 (25th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Taco Metals LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Taco Metals LLC's recent grant velocity is -20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Taco Metals LLC's patents?

Taco Metals LLC's patents average 4.6 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Taco Metals LLC patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Taco Metals LLC

Q: What technology areas does Taco Metals LLC focus on?

Taco Metals LLC's top technology area is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Taco Metals · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

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.

Twentieth Century…

9
TWO Cells

9
Tyto Care

9
TZU CHI University

9
Taisei

9
Takara Bio Europe…

9
Takeda Pharmaceut…

9
Tangent

9
Taco Metals ◀

9

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.

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

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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?

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 4

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#30,314

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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.