Where does The University Of Southern Mississippi rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The University Of Southern Mississippi ranks #9,903 of 50,000 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 University Of Southern Mississippi hold?

The University Of Southern Mississippi holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is The University Of Southern Mississippi's Innovation Score?

The University Of Southern Mississippi has an Innovation Score of 63.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The University Of Southern Mississippi's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The University Of Southern Mississippi's recent grant velocity is +122% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for The University Of Southern Mississippi's patents?

The University Of Southern Mississippi's patents average 20.0 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 University Of Southern Mississippi 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 US Corporation

The University Of Southern Mississippi

Q: What technology areas does The University Of Southern Mississippi focus on?

The University Of Southern Mississippi's top technology area is C08G (MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS) with 18 patents. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 30 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: C08G (MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #9,903 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 30 technology areas.

#9,903
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.5/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent: +122%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9903 · US Corporation #9,903 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,903/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH TerraLUX
CPC-FOCUS C08G · 30 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +122% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Terralux, 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
Interdigital Madison… · near

63
KAO · near

63
The University Of So… · this assignee

63
Tianjin University · near

63
Advantest · near

63
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows The University Of Southern Mississippi stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-STRONG, CLAIMS-DENSE, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #9,903 of 50,000; Innovation Score 63.5/100 sits in the top 2% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Terralux, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

The University Of Southern Mississippi has been granted 32 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing The University Of Southern Mississippi at #9,903 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 30 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 20.0 claims per patent with primary concentration in C08G (MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS). As a US Corporation, The University Of Southern Mississippi is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, The sits between Terralux, Inc. (32 patents, rank #9,900) and Turtle Beach Corporation (32 patents, rank #9,908) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 63.5/100 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 20 grants, compared with 9 in the 2015–2019 window, a +122% 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 Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. The University Of Southern Mississippi's 20.0 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 30 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Terralux

32
Tesseract Ventures

32
The Hong Kong Res…

32
The Smead Manufac…

32
Topsoe A/S

32
Toshiba Industria…

32
Triquint Semicond…

32
Turtle Beach

32
The University of… ◀

32

What this shows The holds 32 patents at rank #9,904, 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 #9,904 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise THAN BY React…)

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 (63 here).

Tianjin University 63 KAO Corporation 63 Interdigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS 63 Advantest Corporation 63

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 50,000 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.

View data table

The University Of Southern Mississippi patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	9.4%
2016	3	9.4%
2017	1	3.1%
2018	2	6.3%
2020	3	9.4%
2021	1	3.1%
2022	7	21.9%
2023	5	15.6%
2024	4	12.5%
2025partial year	3	9.4%

Which technologies does The University Of Southern Mississippi patent most?

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 18

C09D - COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR 12

C08F - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS 7

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

C09J - ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES 4

H10K - ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H 4

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES 3

C10M - LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS ; USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES EITHER ALONE OR AS LUBRICATING INGREDIENTS IN A LUBRICATING COMPOSITION 3

C10L - FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G OR C10K; LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS; USE OF ADDITIVES TO FUELS OR FIRES; FIRE-LIGHTERS 3

C10N - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS C10M RELATING TO LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS 3

C07D - HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 3

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 2

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 2

Top 15 of 30 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,903

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

63.5 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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Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
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