Where does The Penn State Research Foundation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Penn State Research Foundation ranks #930 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 Penn State Research Foundation hold?

The Penn State Research Foundation holds 480 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 188 technology areas.

What is The Penn State Research Foundation's Innovation Score?

The Penn State Research Foundation has an Innovation Score of 61.4 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Penn State Research Foundation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Penn State Research Foundation's recent grant velocity is -10% 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 The Penn State Research Foundation's patents?

The Penn State Research Foundation's patents average 16.5 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 Penn State Research Foundation 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 Foreign Corporation

The Penn State Research Foundation

Q: What technology areas does The Penn State Research Foundation focus on?

The Penn State Research Foundation's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 92 patents. Grants appear in 188 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 480 granted patents across 188 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #930 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 480 patents across 188 technology areas.

#930
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R930 · Foreign Corporation #930 · 480 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 480 grants
TOP-DECILE #930/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Schweitzer Engineeri…
CPC-WIDE A61K · 188 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (±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
IFP Energies Nouvelles · near

61
Nchain Licensing · near

61
Gulfstream Aerospace · near

61
Harbin Institute OF… · near

61
The Penn State… · this assignee

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (top 3% 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.

How The's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, The Penn State Research Foundation received 212 grants versus 236 in 2015–2019 (-10% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 63 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 34. Lead class A61K accounts for 19.2% of the portfolio across 188 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (#926) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (#934).

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Penn State Research Foundation moved from 150 to 116 grants (0.77x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,923. See the growth leaderboard.

The Swatch Group…

482
Corning Research…

481
Conocophillips

481
Schweitzer Engine…

480
The Penn State Re… ◀

480
Aristocrat

478
United States Pos…

477
Caterpillar Pavin…

476
Chicago Mercantil…

476

What this shows The holds 480 patents at rank #930, 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 #930 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation 61 Harbin Institute OF Technology 61 Nchain Licensing AG 61 IFP Energies Nouvelles 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. 16.5 avg Appotronics Corporation Limited 16.5 avg Arlanxeo Deutschland GmbH 16.5 avg GE Hybrid Technologies, LLC 16.5 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 Penn State Research Foundation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	7.1%
2016	39	8.1%
2017	63	13.1%
2018	46	9.6%
2019	54	11.3%
2020	51	10.6%
2021	45	9.4%
2022	42	8.8%
2023	38	7.9%
2024	36	7.5%
2025partial year	32	6.7%

Which technologies does The Penn State Research Foundation patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 92

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 74

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 55

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 54

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 48

C07K - Peptides 36

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 29

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 26

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 26

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 23

C12Y - Enzymes 21

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 21

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 21

B01D - Separation 20

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 19

Top 15 of 188 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#930

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.4 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

The Penn State Research Foundation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Penn State Research Foundation's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 19.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #930 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
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Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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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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

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