Where does Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni ranks #11,520 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 Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni hold?

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni's Innovation Score?

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni's patents?

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni's patents average 2.9 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 Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni 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

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni

Q: What technology areas does Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni focus on?

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni's top technology area is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal) with 4 patents, ranking #186 of 818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Zapadoceska ranks #11,520 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 18 technology areas.

#11,520
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 2.9
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11520 · Foreign Corporation #11,520 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,520/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ams-OSRAM Internatio…
CPC-FOCUS B21D · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ams-OSRAM International GmbH (±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 Zapadoceska’s 44.9 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 11.5 pts (26%) Velocity 16.7 pts (37%) Breadth 15.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 1.7 pts (4%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chegg · near

45
Empresa Brasileira… · near

45
OneEvent · near

45
TE Connectivity… · near

45
Zapadoceska… · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zapadoceska's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 24% 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 Zapadoceska?

Each dot is one of Zapadoceska’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). Zapadoceska’s own 2.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Zapadoceska's grants concentrate

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 14.8% of grants classified under B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Zapadoceska sits between Xellia Pharmaceuticals ApS and tZERO IP, LLC.

Zapadoceska's three-year grant acceleration

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Xellia Pharmaceut…

27
Yokogawa Test & M…

27
Zettaset

27
Zhejiang NHU

27
ams-osram Interna…

27
eyesight Mobile

27
nference

27
tzero IP

27
Zapadoceska unive… ◀

27

What this shows Zapadoceska holds 27 patents at rank #11,518, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zapadoceska

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,518 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zapadoceska, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes), Zapadoceska ranks #186 of 818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Empresa Brasileira DE Pesquisa AGROPECUÁRIA—EMBRAPA 45 OneEvent Technologies, Inc. 45 Chegg, Inc. 45 TE Connectivity Nederland BV 45

Zapadoceska's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.1%
2016	6	22.2%
2017	10	37.0%
2018	1	3.7%
2019	1	3.7%
2020	1	3.7%
2022	2	7.4%
2023	1	3.7%
2024	2	7.4%

Which technologies does Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni patent most?

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 4

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 3

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

B23C - Milling 1

B61H - Brakes OR Other Retarding Devices Specially Adapted FOR Rail VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Disposition Thereof IN Rail Vehicles 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

F16H - Gearing 1

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

C22C - Alloys 1

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 1

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni's lead technology class is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal), 14.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21D
Ranked #11,520 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni against Xellia Pharmaceuticals ApS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.9/100 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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