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The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology

Q: Where does The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology ranks #13,201 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology 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 PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 40 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #13,201 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 40 technology areas.

#13,201
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.8/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13201 · US Federal Government #13,201 · 23 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,201/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH The Kitasato Institute
CPC-WIDE G01N · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USGOV US Federal Gov
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Kitasato Institute (±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
The United States Of… · this assignee

44
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-WIDE, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USGOV, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #13,201 of 50,000; Innovation Score 43.8/100 sits in the top 27% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is The Kitasato Institute (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology has been granted 23 US utility patents between 2015 and 2018, placing The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology at #13,201 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 40 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 17.5 claims per patent with primary concentration in G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES). As a US Federal Government, The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, The sits between The Kitasato Institute (23 patents, rank #13,200) and Timex Group USA, Inc. (23 patents, rank #13,208) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 43.8/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 0 grants, compared with 23 in the 2015–2019 window, a -100% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Federal Government classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology's 17.5 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 40 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

The Kitasato Inst…

23
The National Inst…

23
The Pokémon

23
The Tranzonic Com…

23
Theai

23
Thinkom Solutions

23
Tidalx AI

23
Timex Group USA

23
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23

What this shows The holds 23 patents at rank #13,204, 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 #13,204 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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)

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

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 Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	30.4%
2016	10	43.5%
2017	4	17.4%
2018	2	8.7%

Which technologies does The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce National Institute Of Standards And Technology patent most?

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 5

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 2

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 2

B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES 2

C25F - PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC REMOVAL OF MATERIALS FROM OBJECTS; APPARATUS THEREFOR 2

H01J - ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS 2

Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS 2

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 2

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 2

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 2

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

F25B - REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS 1

B23K - SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM 1

H10N - ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

Top 15 of 40 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,201

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

43.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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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