Where does Thinkware Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thinkware Corporation ranks #2,429 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 Thinkware Corporation hold?

Thinkware Corporation holds 161 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Thinkware Corporation's Innovation Score?

Thinkware Corporation has an Innovation Score of 60.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Thinkware Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thinkware Corporation's recent grant velocity is +156% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Thinkware Corporation's patents?

Thinkware Corporation's patents average 15.4 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 Thinkware Corporation 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

Thinkware Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Thinkware Corporation focus on?

Thinkware Corporation's top technology area is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry) with 52 patents, ranking #74 of 1,814 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 161 granted patents across 32 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: G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thinkware ranks #2,429 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 161 patents across 32 technology areas.

#2,429
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.2/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: +156%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2429 · Foreign Corporation #2,429 · 161 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 161 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,429/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nivarox-FAR
CPC-FOCUS G01C · 32 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +156% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nivarox-FAR S.A. (±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 Thinkware’s 60.2 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 17.6 pts (29%) Velocity 13.3 pts (22%) Breadth 20.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gen-probe Incorporated · near

60
Himax · near

60
Nextracker · near

60
Poet Research · near

60
Thinkware · this assignee

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thinkware's Innovation Score is 60.2/100 (top 3% 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 Thinkware?

Each dot is one of Thinkware’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). Thinkware’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Thinkware vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Thinkware's grants concentrate

Thinkware Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 32.3% of grants classified under G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (30 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Thinkware sits between Nivarox-FAR S.A. and Carvana, LLC.

Thinkware's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Thinkware Corporation moved from 38 to 76 grants (2.00x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #213. See the growth leaderboard.

Nivarox-far

161
Positec Power Too…

161
Powerchip Semicon…

161
Staton Techiya

161
Yantai Jereh Petr…

161
Thinkware ◀

161
AMI Industries

160
Bigfoot Biomedical

160
Carvana

160

What this shows Thinkware holds 161 patents at rank #2,429, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thinkware

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,429 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01C (Measuring Distances)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Thinkware's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thinkware, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01C (Measuring Distances), Thinkware ranks #74 of 1,814 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Nextracker LLC 60 Poet Research, Inc. 60 Gen-probe Incorporated 60 Himax Technologies Limited 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Cytiva Sweden AB 15.4 avg Current Lighting Solutions, LLC 15.4 avg ENI S.P.A. 15.4 avg SHL Medical AG 15.4 avg

Thinkware's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Thinkware Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.2%
2016	2	1.2%
2017	14	8.7%
2018	14	8.7%
2019	9	5.6%
2020	20	12.4%
2021	9	5.6%
2022	22	13.7%
2023	24	14.9%
2024	30	18.6%
2025partial year	15	9.3%

Which technologies does Thinkware Corporation patent most?

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 52

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 36

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 35

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 32

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 28

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 19

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 17

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 14

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 9

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

Top 15 of 32 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

Thinkware Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thinkware Corporation's lead technology class is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry), 32.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01C
Ranked #2,429 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thinkware Corporation against Nivarox-FAR S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.2/100 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

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

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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