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The United States Of America, Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: F42B (EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING, FIREWORKS, AMMUNITION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #13,729 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 32 technology areas.

#13,729
of 50,000 US assignees by volume
Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100)
12.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13729 · US Federal Government #13,729 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USGOV · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
  • MID-PACK #13,729/50,000
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tech4Imaging
  • CPC-FOCUS F42B · 32 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USGOV US Federal Gov
  • SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tech4imaging Llc (±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 United States Of America, Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USGOV, SPAN-YRS, BOOK-RICH. Volume places it #13,729 of 50,000; Innovation Score 58.1/100 sits in the top 5% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Tech4imaging Llc (±0 grants).

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Portfolio overview

The United States Of America, Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy has been granted 22 US utility patents between 2020 and 2025, placing The United States Of America, Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy at #13,729 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 32 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 12.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in F42B (EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING, FIREWORKS, AMMUNITION). As a US Federal Government, The United States Of America, Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, The sits between Tech4imaging Llc (22 patents, rank #13,738) and Tindall Corporation (22 patents, rank #13,746) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 58.1/100 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. Historical data spans 2020 through 2025, with 22 total grants over that period. 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, Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy's 12.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 32 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

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 22 patents at rank #13,742, 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 #13,742 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F42B (Explosive Charges)

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 (58 here).

Qatar University 58 Avary Holding (shenzhen) Co., Limited. 58 Five AI Limited 58 Nanjing Agricultural University 58

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 50,000 US assignees

0–10: 687 US assignees (1%). Below this entry. 10–20: 2,527 US assignees (5%). Below this entry. 20–30: 13,162 US assignees (26%). Below this entry. 30–40: 15,294 US assignees (31%). Below this entry. 40–50: 11,491 US assignees (23%). Below this entry. 50–60: 5,058 US assignees (10%). This entry sits in this band. 60–70: 1,537 US assignees (3%). Above this entry. 70–80: 234 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 80–90: 10 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 90–100: 0 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 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 · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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The United States Of America, Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2020 1 4.5%
2023 2 9.1%
2024 13 59.1%
2025partial year 6 27.3%

Which technologies does The United States Of America, Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy patent most?

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,729

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?
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.