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Tornado Spectral Systems Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tornado ranks #37,986 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 3 technology areas.

#37,986
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
19th percentile
by Innovation Score (26.0/100)
17.4
avg claims per patent
-25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R37986 · Foreign Corporation #37,986 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
  • LOWER-Q #37,986/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tokyo Denki University
  • CPC-NARROW G01J · 3 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 26.0/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DOWN -25% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tokyo Denki University (±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 Tornado

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

score

What this shows Tornado's Innovation Score is 26.0/100 (19th percentile 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

Where Tornado's grants concentrate

Tornado Spectral Systems Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry). By volume, Tornado sits between Tokyo Denki University and Touchfire, Inc..

Tornado's three-year grant acceleration

Tornado Spectral Systems Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Who files at Tornado's volume?

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

patents

What this shows Tornado holds 7 patents at rank #38,001, 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 Tornado

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,001 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01J (Measurement OF Intensity)

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

Tornado's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 19th percentile higher than 19% 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 · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Tornado Spectral Systems Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 1 14.3%
2016 1 14.3%
2017 1 14.3%
2019 1 14.3%
2020 1 14.3%
2021 1 14.3%
2022 1 14.3%

Which technologies does Tornado Spectral Systems Inc. patent most?

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#37,986

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

26.0 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

Tornado Spectral Systems Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Tornado Spectral Systems Inc.'s lead technology class is G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01J
  • Ranked #37,986 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Tornado Spectral Systems Inc. against Tokyo Denki University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 26.0/100 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.