Where does UDC Ireland Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UDC Ireland Limited ranks #2,467 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 UDC Ireland Limited hold?

UDC Ireland Limited holds 159 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is UDC Ireland Limited's Innovation Score?

UDC Ireland Limited has an Innovation Score of 45.5 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does UDC Ireland Limited focus on?

UDC Ireland Limited's top technology area is H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices) with 157 patents, ranking #35 of 791 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is UDC Ireland Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

UDC Ireland Limited's recent grant velocity is -50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for UDC Ireland Limited's patents?

UDC Ireland Limited's patents average 15.7 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 UDC Ireland Limited 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

UDC Ireland Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 159 granted patents across 18 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: H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, UDC ranks #2,467 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 159 patents across 18 technology areas.

#2,467
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.5/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2467 · Foreign Corporation #2,467 · 159 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 159 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,467/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Simmonds Precision…
CPC-FOCUS H10K · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Simmonds Precision Products, 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.

How UDC’s 45.5 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 17.5 pts (39%) Velocity 3.5 pts (8%) Breadth 15.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fisher & Paykel… · near

46
SOLiD · near

46
The Wistar Institute… · near

46
UDC Ireland · this assignee

46
WhatsApp · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows UDC's Innovation Score is 45.5/100 (top 23% 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 UDC?

Each dot is one of UDC’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). UDC’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where UDC's grants concentrate

UDC Ireland Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 98.7% of grants classified under H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (30 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2022. By volume, UDC sits between Sonicwall Inc. and Docusign, Inc..

UDC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, UDC Ireland Limited moved from 53 to 28 grants (0.53x 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 #2,627. See the growth leaderboard.

Sonicwall

159
Simmonds Precisio…

159
THE Glad Products

159
Touchtunes Music

159
Yahoo Ad Tech

159
UDC Ireland ◀

159
Akebono Brake Ind…

158
C R F Societa' Co…

158
Docusign

158

What this shows UDC holds 159 patents at rank #2,467, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near UDC

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,467 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for UDC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices), UDC ranks #35 of 791 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

WhatsApp LLC 46 SOLiD, Inc. 46 The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 46 Fisher & Paykel Appliances Limited 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

MAN Truck &Bus AG 15.7 avg Zoll Circulation, Inc. 15.7 avg Parallels International GmbH 15.7 avg Vixs Systems, Inc. 15.7 avg

UDC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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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UDC Ireland Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	6.3%
2016	23	14.5%
2017	22	13.8%
2018	18	11.3%
2019	30	18.9%
2020	12	7.5%
2021	11	6.9%
2022	6	3.8%
2023	14	8.8%
2024	8	5.0%
2025partial year	5	3.1%

Which technologies does UDC Ireland Limited patent most?

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 157

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 128

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 79

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 72

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 70

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 44

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 34

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 17

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 16

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 10

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 4

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 1

Top 15 of 18 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

UDC Ireland Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UDC Ireland Limited's lead technology class is H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices), 98.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10K
Ranked #2,467 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UDC Ireland Limited against Sonicwall Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.5/100 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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