Where does THE Queen's University OF Belfast rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), THE Queen's University OF Belfast ranks #5,891 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 Queen's University OF Belfast hold?

THE Queen's University OF Belfast holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 54 technology areas.

What is THE Queen's University OF Belfast's Innovation Score?

THE Queen's University OF Belfast has an Innovation Score of 56.1 out of 100 (top 6% 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 Queen's University OF Belfast focus on?

THE Queen's University OF Belfast's top technology area is C07H (SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids) with 15 patents, ranking #49 of 896 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 54 CPC subclasses total.

Is THE Queen's University OF Belfast's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

THE Queen's University OF Belfast's recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Queen's University OF Belfast's patents?

THE Queen's University OF Belfast's patents average 20.2 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 Queen's University OF Belfast 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 Queen's University OF Belfast

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 54 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: C07H (SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, THE ranks #5,891 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 54 technology areas.

#5,891
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.1/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5891 · Foreign Corporation #5,891 · 58 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,891/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sony Computer…
CPC-WIDE C07H · 54 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd. (±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 56.1 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 14.1 pts (25%) Velocity 4.9 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ball · near

56
BenQ · near

56
Dyne Therapeutics · near

56
Böllhoff Verbindungs… · near

56
THE Queen's… · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows THE's Innovation Score is 56.1/100 (top 6% 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 20.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 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.

How THE's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, THE Queen's University OF Belfast received 24 grants versus 31 in 2015–2019 (-23% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 9 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 4. Lead class C07H accounts for 25.9% of the portfolio across 54 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd. (#5,887) and Trinamix GMBH (#5,895).

THE's three-year grant acceleration

THE Queen's University OF Belfast shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Sony Computer Ent…

58
Sony Europe

58
Speedtech Lights

58
Superior Essex In…

58
THE Timken

58
Total Raffinage C…

58
TPR

58
Trinamix

58
THE Queen's Unive… ◀

58

What this shows THE holds 58 patents at rank #5,891, 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 #5,891 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07H (Sugars)

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). In C07H (Sugars), THE ranks #49 of 896 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH 56 Dyne Therapeutics, Inc. 56 BenQ Corporation 56 Ball Corporation 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.2 here).

Lantiq Deutschland GmbH 20.2 avg Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“FREDDIE MAC”) 20.2 avg ObjectVideo Labs, LLC 20.2 avg LSI 20.2 avg

THE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 Queen's University OF Belfast patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	6.9%
2016	5	8.6%
2017	6	10.3%
2018	7	12.1%
2019	9	15.5%
2020	4	6.9%
2021	6	10.3%
2022	5	8.6%
2023	5	8.6%
2024	4	6.9%
2025partial year	3	5.2%

Which technologies does THE Queen's University OF Belfast patent most?

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 15

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 11

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 9

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 7

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 7

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 6

C07K - Peptides 6

B01D - Separation 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 5

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 5

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 4

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 4

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 3

Top 15 of 54 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 Queen's University OF Belfast's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

THE Queen's University OF Belfast's lead technology class is C07H (SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids), 25.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07H
Ranked #5,891 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare THE Queen's University OF Belfast against Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.1/100 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

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

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