Where does Universiteit Hasselt rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Universiteit Hasselt ranks #14,359 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 Universiteit Hasselt hold?

Universiteit Hasselt holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Universiteit Hasselt's Innovation Score?

Universiteit Hasselt has an Innovation Score of 43.9 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Universiteit Hasselt focus on?

Universiteit Hasselt's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 9 patents, ranking #1,627 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

Is Universiteit Hasselt's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Universiteit Hasselt's recent grant velocity is +11% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Universiteit Hasselt's patents?

Universiteit Hasselt's patents average 16.3 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 Universiteit Hasselt 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

Universiteit Hasselt

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 28 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Universiteit ranks #14,359 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 28 technology areas.

#14,359
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.9/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14359 · Foreign Corporation #14,359 · 21 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,359/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Uniquify
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Uniquify, 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 Universiteit’s 43.9 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 10.7 pts (24%) Velocity 4.8 pts (11%) Breadth 18.7 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Universiteit Hasselt · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Universiteit's Innovation Score is 43.9/100 (top 27% 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 Universiteit?

Each dot is one of Universiteit’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). Universiteit’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Universiteit's grants concentrate

Universiteit Hasselt is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 42.9% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Universiteit sits between Univerzita PALACKÉHO V Olomouci and VDF FutureCeuticals, Inc..

Universiteit's three-year grant acceleration

Universiteit Hasselt shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Univerzita Palack…

21
UTC Fire & Securi…

21
Uniquify

21
Universal Trim Su…

21
Università Degli…

21
Utilidata

21
Vanguard Internat…

21
VDF Futureceutica…

21
Universiteit Hass… ◀

21

What this shows Universiteit holds 21 patents at rank #14,361, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Universiteit

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,361 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Universiteit's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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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Universiteit Hasselt patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.8%
2016	4	19.0%
2017	2	9.5%
2019	2	9.5%
2020	2	9.5%
2021	3	14.3%
2022	2	9.5%
2023	3	14.3%
2025partial year	2	9.5%

Which technologies does Universiteit Hasselt patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 6

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 3

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 3

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 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

C07K - Peptides 1

Top 15 of 28 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

Universiteit Hasselt's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Universiteit Hasselt's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 42.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #14,359 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Universiteit Hasselt against Univerzita PALACKÉHO V Olomouci, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.9/100 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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