Where does Tuskegee University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tuskegee University ranks #13,218 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 Tuskegee University hold?

Tuskegee University holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Tuskegee University's Innovation Score?

Tuskegee University has an Innovation Score of 51.3 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Tuskegee University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tuskegee University's recent grant velocity is +260% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Tuskegee University's patents?

Tuskegee University's patents average 13.3 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 Tuskegee University 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

Tuskegee University

Q: What technology areas does Tuskegee University focus on?

Tuskegee University's top technology area is C08J (WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: C08J (WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tuskegee ranks #13,218 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 35 technology areas.

#13,218
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: +260%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13218 · US Corporation #13,218 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,218/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Topgolf Sweden AB
CPC-FOCUS C08J · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +260% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Topgolf Sweden AB (±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
Tuskegee University · this assignee

51
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Tuskegee University stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #13,218 of 50,000; Innovation Score 51.3/100 sits in the top 12% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Topgolf Sweden AB (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Tuskegee University has been granted 23 US utility patents between 2015 and 2024, placing Tuskegee University at #13,218 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 35 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 13.3 claims per patent with primary concentration in C08J (WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H). As a US Corporation, Tuskegee University is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Tuskegee sits between Topgolf Sweden AB (23 patents, rank #13,209) and UCB Pharma Gmbh (23 patents, rank #13,217) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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 18 grants, compared with 5 in the 2015–2019 window, a +260% 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. Tuskegee University's 13.3 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 35 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Topgolf Sweden AB

23
Transtron

23
Trimble Jena

23
Truepic

23
Tyco Brasil LTDA

23
Tyco Svenska AB

23
U S Bancorp Natio…

23
UCB Pharma

23
Tuskegee Universi… ◀

23

What this shows Tuskegee holds 23 patents at rank #13,213, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tuskegee

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,213 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08J (Working-up)

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

Tuskegee's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Tuskegee University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.7%
2016	1	4.3%
2018	1	4.3%
2019	1	4.3%
2020	1	4.3%
2021	5	21.7%
2022	6	26.1%
2023	4	17.4%
2024	2	8.7%

Which technologies does Tuskegee University patent most?

C08J - WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H 7

B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES 6

C08L - COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 4

B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS 3

C07K - PEPTIDES 3

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; DERIVATIVES THEREOF 3

C12Q - MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS ; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES 2

C02F - TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE 2

B01D - SEPARATION 2

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

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 2

C01P - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO STRUCTURAL AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF SOLID INORGANIC COMPOUNDS 2

D01F - CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBON FILAMENTS 2

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,218

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.3 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

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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