Where does Acme United Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Acme United Corporation ranks #5,193 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 Acme United Corporation hold?

Acme United Corporation holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Acme United Corporation's Innovation Score?

Acme United Corporation has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Acme United Corporation focus on?

Acme United Corporation's top technology area is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 9 patents, ranking #31 of 239 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Acme United Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Acme United Corporation's recent grant velocity is -68% 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 Acme United Corporation's patents?

Acme United Corporation's patents average 5.8 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 Acme United 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

Acme United Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 26 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: B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Acme ranks #5,193 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 26 technology areas.

#5,193
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 5.8
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5193 · US Corporation #5,193 · 66 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,193/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Liquid Logic
CPC-FOCUS B26B · 26 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Liquid Logic, 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 Acme’s 38.3 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 14.5 pts (38%) Velocity 2.3 pts (6%) Breadth 18.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 3.5 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Acme United · this assignee

38
Bradley Fixtures · near

38
Hayashibara · near

38
Netspective… · near

38
Scientific Games… · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Acme's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Acme?

Each dot is one of Acme’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). Acme’s own 5.8 claims/patent is at or below the 12.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Acme's grants concentrate

Acme United Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 13.6% of grants classified under B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Acme sits between Warrior Sports, Inc. and Bal Seal Engineering, LLC.

Acme's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Acme United Corporation moved from 23 to 8 grants (0.35x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Warrior Sports

67
Zhejiang Cfmoto P…

67
Aixtron SE

66
Axens

66
Advanced Liquid L…

66
Aerojet Rocketdyne

66
Babyliss Faco SRL

66
Bal Seal Engineer…

66
Acme United ◀

66

What this shows Acme holds 66 patents at rank #5,195, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Acme

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,195 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Acme, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools), Acme ranks #31 of 239 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Scientific Games International, Inc. 38 Bradley Fixtures, LLC 38 Hayashibara Co., Ltd. 38 Netspective Communications LLC 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.8 here).

Hi-lex Corporation 5.8 avg Audio-Technica Corporation 5.8 avg Sami Labs Limited 5.7 avg Tempur-Pedic Management, LLC 5.8 avg

Acme's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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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Acme United Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	15.2%
2016	7	10.6%
2017	4	6.1%
2018	14	21.2%
2019	15	22.7%
2020	6	9.1%
2021	2	3.0%
2022	3	4.5%
2023	3	4.5%
2024	2	3.0%

Which technologies does Acme United Corporation patent most?

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

B25G - Handles FOR Hand Implements 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

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 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 1

Top 15 of 26 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

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

Acme United Corporation's lead technology class is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 13.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B26B
Ranked #5,193 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Acme United Corporation against Warrior Sports, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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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