Where does United Kingdom Research and Innovation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), United Kingdom Research and Innovation ranks #5,126 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 United Kingdom Research and Innovation hold?

United Kingdom Research and Innovation holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is United Kingdom Research and Innovation's Innovation Score?

United Kingdom Research and Innovation has an Innovation Score of 55.6 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is United Kingdom Research and Innovation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

United Kingdom Research and Innovation's recent grant velocity is +308% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for United Kingdom Research and Innovation's patents?

United Kingdom Research and Innovation's patents average 20.5 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 United Kingdom Research and Innovation 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

United Kingdom Research and Innovation

Q: What technology areas does United Kingdom Research and Innovation focus on?

United Kingdom Research and Innovation's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 29 patents, ranking #521 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 44 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, United ranks #5,126 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 44 technology areas.

#5,126
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.6/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: +308%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5126 · Foreign Corporation #5,126 · 68 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,126/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ThoughtSpot
CPC-WIDE G01N · 44 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +308% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ThoughtSpot, 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 United’s 55.6 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 14.6 pts (26%) Velocity 5.2 pts (9%) Breadth 23.5 pts (42%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Auctane · near

56
Huntsman International · near

56
JGC · near

56
Laboratory OF… · near

56
United Kingdom… · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows United's Innovation Score is 55.6/100 (top 7% 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 United?

Each dot is one of United’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). United’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where United's grants concentrate

United Kingdom Research and Innovation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 42.6% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (12 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2018. By volume, United sits between ThoughtSpot, Inc. and Woven Planet North America, Inc..

United's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, United Kingdom Research and Innovation moved from 32 to 25 grants (0.78x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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Transphorm

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Umbra

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Ubicquia

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Vale

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Vactronix Scienti…

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WD Media

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What this shows United holds 68 patents at rank #5,124, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near United

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,124 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for United, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), United ranks #521 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

JGC Corporation 56 Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings 56 Huntsman International LLC 56 Auctane, Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.5 here).

Iqvia Inc. 20.5 avg Intrinsic Innovation LLC 20.5 avg Cupp Computing AS 20.5 avg Science Applications International Corporation 20.5 avg

United's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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United Kingdom Research and Innovation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	5.9%
2019	8	11.8%
2020	12	17.6%
2021	12	17.6%
2022	9	13.2%
2023	10	14.7%
2024	6	8.8%
2025partial year	7	10.3%

Which technologies does United Kingdom Research and Innovation patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 29

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 22

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 20

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 20

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 16

C07K - Peptides 14

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 9

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 8

C12Y - Enzymes 8

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 8

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 6

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 5

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 5

Top 15 of 44 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

United Kingdom Research and Innovation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

United Kingdom Research and Innovation's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 42.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #5,126 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare United Kingdom Research and Innovation against ThoughtSpot, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.6/100 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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