Where does Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais ranks #12,285 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 Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais hold?

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais's Innovation Score?

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais's recent grant velocity is -30% 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 Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais's patents?

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais's patents average 12.4 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 Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais 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

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais

Q: What technology areas does Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais focus on?

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 7 patents, ranking #608 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 41 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Universidade ranks #12,285 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 41 technology areas.

#12,285
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 12.4
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12285 · Foreign Corporation #12,285 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,285/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tsunami MedTech
CPC-WIDE B01J · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tsunami MedTech, LLC (±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 Universidade’s 49.6 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 11.3 pts (23%) Velocity 8.3 pts (17%) Breadth 22.6 pts (46%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dongbu Daewoo · near

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Universidade… · this assignee

50
Utopus Insights · near

50
Western Digital… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Universidade's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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 Universidade?

Each dot is one of Universidade’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). Universidade’s own 12.4 claims/patent is at or below the 15.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Universidade's grants concentrate

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 28% of grants classified under B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Universidade sits between Tsunami MedTech, LLC and University OF Exeter.

Universidade's three-year grant acceleration

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

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25
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25
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25

What this shows Universidade holds 25 patents at rank #12,279, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Universidade

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,279 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Universidade, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), Universidade ranks #608 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Management Services Group, Inc. 50 Utopus Insights, Inc. 50 Dongbu Daewoo Electronics Corporation 50 Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC 50

Universidade's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	16.0%
2016	1	4.0%
2017	2	8.0%
2018	1	4.0%
2019	2	8.0%
2020	2	8.0%
2022	3	12.0%
2024	2	8.0%
2025partial year	8	32.0%

Which technologies does Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 7

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 5

B01D - Separation 5

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

C07K - Peptides 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 3

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

Top 15 of 41 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

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 28% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #12,285 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais against Tsunami MedTech, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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

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