Where does Unikey Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Unikey Technologies, Inc. ranks #18,241 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 Unikey Technologies, Inc. hold?

Unikey Technologies, Inc. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Unikey Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Unikey Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 33.5 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Unikey Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Unikey Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Unikey Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Unikey Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 34.4 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 Unikey Technologies, Inc. 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

Unikey Technologies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Unikey Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Unikey Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 16 patents, ranking #123 of 1,508 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: 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 FO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Unikey ranks #18,241 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 6 technology areas.

#18,241
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.5/100): 34.4
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18241 · US Corporation #18,241 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #18,241/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ubkang (QINGDAO)…
CPC-NARROW G07C · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 34.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ubkang (QINGDAO) Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Unikey’s 33.5 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 9.8 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 8.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (45%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Unikey · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Unikey's Innovation Score is 33.5/100 (44th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Unikey?

Each dot is one of Unikey’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). Unikey’s own 34.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Unikey's grants concentrate

Unikey Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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 FO). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Unikey sits between Ubkang (QINGDAO) Technology Co., Ltd. and Universite DE Droit ET DE LA Sante DE Lille 2.

Ubkang (Qingdao)…

16
Ujet

16
ULIS

16
UMG ABS

16
Union Pacific Rai…

16
Unipres

16
Universidad Compl…

16
Universite DE Dro…

16
Unikey ◀

16

What this shows Unikey holds 16 patents at rank #18,235, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Unikey

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,235 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07C (Time OR Attendance Registers)

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

Unikey's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Unikey Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	18.8%
2016	5	31.3%
2017	5	31.3%
2018	2	12.5%
2019	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Unikey Technologies, Inc. patent most?

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 16

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

H04B - Transmission 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Unikey Technologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Unikey Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 FO), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07C
Ranked #18,241 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Unikey Technologies, Inc. against Ubkang (QINGDAO) Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.5/100 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

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.