Where does u-blox AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), u-blox AG ranks #3,829 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 u-blox AG hold?

u-blox AG holds 95 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is u-blox AG's Innovation Score?

u-blox AG has an Innovation Score of 52.1 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is u-blox AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

u-blox AG's recent grant velocity is +83% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for u-blox AG's patents?

u-blox AG's patents average 18.9 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 u-blox AG 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

u-blox AG

Q: What technology areas does u-blox AG focus on?

u-blox AG's top technology area is 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) with 51 patents, ranking #120 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 95 granted patents across 27 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, u-blox ranks #3,829 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 95 patents across 27 technology areas.

#3,829
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.1/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3829 · Foreign Corporation #3,829 · 95 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 95 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,829/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sanmina
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sanmina Corporation (±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 u-blox’s 52.1 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 15.8 pts (30%) Velocity 6.7 pts (13%) Breadth 18.4 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Krauss-maffei… · near

52
Spinal Simplicity · near

52
STI Holdings · near

52
u-blox · this assignee

52
BenQ Materials · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows u-blox's Innovation Score is 52.1/100 (top 10% 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 u-blox?

Each dot is one of u-blox’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). u-blox’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where u-blox's grants concentrate

u-blox AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 53.7% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (13 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, u-blox sits between S.P.C.M. SA and Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC.

u-blox's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, u-blox AG moved from 31 to 31 grants (1.00x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

S P C M

95
Shenzhen Skyworth…

95
Sanmina

95
Woodwelding

95
u-blox ◀

95
Arbor Networks

94
Adesto

94
Bertec

94
Butamax Advanced…

94

What this shows u-blox holds 95 patents at rank #3,830, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near u-blox

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,830 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in u-blox's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for u-blox, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), u-blox ranks #120 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

STI Holdings, Inc. 52 Spinal Simplicity, LLC 52 Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG 52 BenQ Materials Corporation 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

The Heil Co. 18.9 avg Gravic, Inc. 18.9 avg Bnsf Railway Company 18.9 avg Gogo Business Aviation LLC 18.9 avg

u-blox's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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u-blox AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	6.3%
2016	7	7.4%
2017	4	4.2%
2018	3	3.2%
2019	9	9.5%
2020	11	11.6%
2021	11	11.6%
2022	9	9.5%
2023	13	13.7%
2024	9	9.5%
2025partial year	13	13.7%

Which technologies does u-blox AG patent most?

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 51

H04B - Transmission 23

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 19

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 7

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 5

H03D - Demodulation OR Transference OF Modulation From ONE Carrier TO Another 5

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

H03B - Generation OF Oscillations, Directly OR BY Frequency-changing, BY Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate IN A Non-switching MANNER; Generation OF Noise BY Such Circuits 4

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 3

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 3

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 3

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 2

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 2

Top 15 of 27 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

u-blox AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

u-blox AG's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 53.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #3,829 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare u-blox AG against S.P.C.M. SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.1/100 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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