Where does Zircon Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zircon Corporation ranks #10,516 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 Zircon Corporation hold?

Zircon Corporation holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Zircon Corporation's Innovation Score?

Zircon Corporation has an Innovation Score of 31.6 out of 100 (38th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Zircon Corporation focus on?

Zircon Corporation's top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 11 patents, ranking #89 of 835 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Zircon Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zircon Corporation's recent grant velocity is -47% 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 Zircon Corporation's patents?

Zircon Corporation's patents average 8.2 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 Zircon Corporation 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

Zircon Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 9 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Zircon ranks #10,516 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 9 technology areas.

#10,516
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.6/100): 8.2
avg claims per patent: -47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10516 · US Corporation #10,516 · 30 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,516/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ZeniMax Media
CPC-NARROW G01V · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -47% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ZeniMax Media 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 Zircon’s 31.6 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 11.9 pts (38%) Velocity 4.2 pts (13%) Breadth 10.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 4.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dorma Deutschland · near

32
Aerodyn Consulting… · near

32
Zircon · this assignee

32
Solar Frontier K K · near

32
TEL FSI · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zircon's Innovation Score is 31.6/100 (38th percentile 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 Zircon?

Each dot is one of Zircon’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). Zircon’s own 8.2 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Zircon's grants concentrate

Zircon Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 36.7% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Zircon sits between Zeus Co., Ltd. and AAC Technologies (Nanjing) Co., Ltd..

Zircon's three-year grant acceleration

Zircon Corporation shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Zeus

30
Zenimax Media

30
Zerofox

30
Zerto

30
Zircon ◀

30
4tech

29
A L M Holding

29
AAC Kaitai (Wuhan)

29
AAC (Nanjing)

29

What this shows Zircon holds 30 patents at rank #10,516, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zircon

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,516 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zircon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01V (Geophysics), Zircon ranks #89 of 835 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Aerodyn Consulting Singapore PTE Ltd 32 Solar Frontier K.K. 32 TEL FSI, Inc. 32 Dorma Deutschland GMBH 32

Zircon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 38th percentile higher than 38% 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.

View data table

Zircon Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	20.0%
2016	3	10.0%
2017	2	6.7%
2019	8	26.7%
2020	1	3.3%
2021	2	6.7%
2022	4	13.3%
2023	1	3.3%
2024	2	6.7%
2025partial year	1	3.3%

Which technologies does Zircon Corporation patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 11

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B25G - Handles FOR Hand Implements 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Zircon Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Zircon Corporation's lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 36.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #10,516 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zircon Corporation against Zeus Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.