Where does Unitec S.P.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Unitec S.P.A. ranks #12,732 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 Unitec S.P.A. hold?

Unitec S.P.A. holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Unitec S.P.A.'s Innovation Score?

Unitec S.P.A. has an Innovation Score of 34.0 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Unitec S.P.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Unitec S.P.A.'s recent grant velocity is -8% 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 Unitec S.P.A.'s patents?

Unitec S.P.A.'s patents average 10.0 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 Unitec S.P.A. 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

Unitec S.P.A.

Q: What technology areas does Unitec S.P.A. focus on?

Unitec S.P.A.'s top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 12 patents, ranking #167 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 11 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Unitec ranks #12,732 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 11 technology areas.

#12,732
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.0/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12732 · Foreign Corporation #12,732 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,732/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tymphany HK
CPC-FOCUS B65G · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tymphany HK Limited (±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 Unitec’s 34.0 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 11.1 pts (33%) Velocity 5.2 pts (15%) Breadth 11.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Unitec S P A · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Unitec's Innovation Score is 34.0/100 (46th 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 Unitec?

Each dot is one of Unitec’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). Unitec’s own 10.0 claims/patent is at or below the 12.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Unitec's grants concentrate

Unitec S.P.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Unitec sits between Tymphany HK Limited and Universite DE Geneve.

Unitec's three-year grant acceleration

Unitec S.P.A. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Tymphany HK

24
U S Department of…

24
U S Farathane

24
Unist Academy-ind…

24
Universal Instrum…

24
Universidad TÉCni…

24
Universite D'evry…

24
Universite DE Gen…

24
Unitec S P A ◀

24

What this shows Unitec holds 24 patents at rank #12,730, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Unitec

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,730 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Unitec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% 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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Unitec S.P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.3%
2016	3	12.5%
2017	1	4.2%
2018	1	4.2%
2019	5	20.8%
2020	3	12.5%
2021	1	4.2%
2022	6	25.0%
2024	1	4.2%
2025partial year	1	4.2%

Which technologies does Unitec S.P.A. patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 12

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 12

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 3

G01G - Weighing 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 1

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 1

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Unitec S.P.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Unitec S.P.A.'s lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #12,732 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Unitec S.P.A. against Tymphany HK Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.0/100 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

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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