Where does Andis Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Andis Company ranks #5,817 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 Andis Company hold?

Andis Company holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Andis Company's Innovation Score?

Andis Company has an Innovation Score of 36.5 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Andis Company focus on?

Andis Company's top technology area is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 27 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Andis Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Andis Company's recent grant velocity is +41% 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 Andis Company's patents?

Andis Company's patents average 8.9 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 Andis Company 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

Andis Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 5 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: B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Andis ranks #5,817 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 5 technology areas.

#5,817
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.5/100): 8.9
avg claims per patent: +41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5817 · US Corporation #5,817 · 58 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,817/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alpha and Omega…
CPC-NARROW B26B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor International LP (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Andis · this assignee

37
Closure Systems… · near

37
Epica International · near

37
Nguyen Gaming · near

37
Photonics Technology… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Andis's Innovation Score is 36.5/100 (top 46% 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.

Where Andis's grants concentrate

Andis Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 46.6% of grants classified under B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Andis sits between Astrium GMBH and Cerence Operating Company.

Andis's three-year grant acceleration

Andis Company shows 22 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Astrium

58
Avigilon Fortress

58
Alpha and Omega S…

58
Amphipod

58
Asensus Surgical…

58
Aydeekay

58
Berg Companies

58
Cerence Operating

58
Andis ◀

58

What this shows Andis holds 58 patents at rank #5,820, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Andis

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,820 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Andis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association 37 Nguyen Gaming LLC 37 Closure Systems International Inc. 37 Epica International, Inc. 37

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.9 here).

Seiren Co., Ltd. 8.9 avg Hardware Resources, Inc. 8.9 avg Unisantis Electronics Singapore PTE. Ltd. 8.9 avg Nabtesco Corporation 8.9 avg

Andis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% 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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Andis Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.4%
2016	5	8.6%
2017	3	5.2%
2018	5	8.6%
2019	7	12.1%
2020	5	8.6%
2021	4	6.9%
2022	10	17.2%
2023	7	12.1%
2024	5	8.6%
2025partial year	5	8.6%

Which technologies does Andis Company patent most?

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 27

F16H - Gearing 2

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 1

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,817

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

36.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Andis Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Andis Company's lead technology class is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 46.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B26B
Ranked #5,817 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Andis Company against Astrium GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.5/100 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.

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.