Where does Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ranks #5,726 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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution hold?

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Innovation Score?

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has an Innovation Score of 55.5 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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution'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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's patents?

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's patents average 18.0 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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 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

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Q: What technology areas does Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution focus on?

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 16 patents, ranking #956 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 granted patents across 63 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, Woods ranks #5,726 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 63 technology areas.

#5,726
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.5/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5726 · US Corporation #5,726 · 60 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,726/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vertice Oil Tools
CPC-WIDE G01N · 63 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vertice Oil Tools 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 Woods’s 55.5 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 14.2 pts (26%) Velocity 5.5 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (19%)

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Woods's Innovation Score is 55.5/100 (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 Woods?

Each dot is one of Woods’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). Woods’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Woods's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received 23 grants versus 33 in 2015–2019 (-30% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 9 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class G01N accounts for 26.7% of the portfolio across 63 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Vertice Oil Tools Inc. (#5,722) and Zonar Systems, Inc. (#5,730).

Woods's three-year grant acceleration

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Vertice Oil Tools

60
Wowza Media Syste…

60
Wuyi University

60
Winfield Solutions

60
Workhorse Group

60
Wyatt Technology

60
Zhejiang Prulde E…

60
Zonar Systems

60
Woods Hole Oceano… ◀

60

What this shows Woods holds 60 patents at rank #5,726, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Woods

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,726 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Woods, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Woods ranks #956 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Institut Polytechnique DE Grenoble 55 Faurecia Systemes D'echappement 55 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 55 EV Group E. Thallner GMBH 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Magna Powertrain, Inc. 18.0 avg Emerging Automotive, LLC 18.0 avg Copeland LP 18.0 avg Teleflex Medical Incorporated 18.0 avg

Woods's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.0%
2016	8	13.3%
2017	5	8.3%
2018	9	15.0%
2019	8	13.3%
2020	5	8.3%
2021	4	6.7%
2022	4	6.7%
2023	5	8.3%
2024	5	8.3%
2025partial year	4	6.7%

Which technologies does Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 8

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 8

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 6

B63G - Offensive OR Defensive Arrangements ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; Aircraft Carriers 6

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 5

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

H04B - Transmission 4

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 4

C11C - Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils OR WAXES; CANDLES; Fats, Oils OR Fatty Acids BY Chemical Modification OF Fats, Oils, OR Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom 4

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 4

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

G01W - Meteorology 4

Top 15 of 63 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

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 26.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #5,726 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution against Vertice Oil Tools Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.5/100 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.

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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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