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The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 101 granted patents across 116 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #3,639 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 101 patents across 116 technology areas.

#3,639
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.6/100)
16.0
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3639 · US Federal Government #3,639 · 101 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USGOV · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MID 101 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #3,639/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Semikron Elektronik…
  • CPC-WIDE B64G · 116 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 50.6/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USGOV US Federal Gov
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Semikron Elektronik GMBH & Co. KG (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around The

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

score

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 50.6/100 (top 13% 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

How The's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA received 0 grants versus 101 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 38 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 1. Lead class B64G accounts for 10.9% of the portfolio across 116 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Semikron Elektronik GMBH & Co. KG (#3,635) and West Virginia University (#3,643).

Who files at The's volume?

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

patents

What this shows The holds 101 patents at rank #3,639, 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 The

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,639 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64G (Cosmonautics)

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 (51 here).

RDI Technologies, Inc. 51 Thetford LLC 51 Ichikoh Industries, Ltd. 51 Nagoya Institute OF Technology 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Azur Space Solar Power GmbH 16.0 avg Versalis S.P.A. 16.0 avg Wilson Sporting Goods Co. 16.0 avg THE Texas A&M University System 16.0 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 · 2015–2019

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 United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 1 1.0%
2016 1 1.0%
2017 25 24.8%
2018 36 35.6%
2019 38 37.6%

Which technologies does The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA patent most?

Top 15 of 116 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,639

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.6 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 United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA's lead technology class is B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor), 10.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64G
  • Ranked #3,639 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA against Semikron Elektronik GMBH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 50.6/100 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

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.