Where does The Island Radar Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Island Radar Company ranks #25,388 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 The Island Radar Company hold?

The Island Radar Company holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is The Island Radar Company's Innovation Score?

The Island Radar Company has an Innovation Score of 33.7 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does The Island Radar Company focus on?

The Island Radar Company's top technology area is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic) with 11 patents, ranking #34 of 195 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is The Island Radar Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Island Radar Company's recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for The Island Radar Company's patents?

The Island Radar Company's patents average 26.2 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 The Island Radar Company 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

The Island Radar Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #25,388 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 3 technology areas.

#25,388
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.7/100): 26.2
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25388 · US Corporation #25,388 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,388/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Board of…
CPC-NARROW B61L · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas (±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 The’s 33.7 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 8.6 pts (26%) Velocity 4.0 pts (12%) Breadth 6.1 pts (18%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (45%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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The Island Radar · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows The's Innovation Score is 33.7/100 (45th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 26.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

The vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where The's grants concentrate

The Island Radar Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, The sits between The Board of Regents of the University of Texas and The University of Canterbury.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Island Radar Company shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

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The Island Radar ◀

11

What this shows The holds 11 patents at rank #25,394, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,394 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic)

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

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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The Island Radar Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	9.1%
2016	1	9.1%
2020	3	27.3%
2021	2	18.2%
2022	1	9.1%
2024	2	18.2%
2025partial year	1	9.1%

Which technologies does The Island Radar Company patent most?

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 11

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 5

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 4

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

The Island Radar Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Island Radar Company's lead technology class is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B61L
Ranked #25,388 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Island Radar Company against The Board of Regents of the University of Texas, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.7/100 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.