Where does Apex Industrial Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Apex Industrial Technologies LLC ranks #11,916 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 Apex Industrial Technologies LLC hold?

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Apex Industrial Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Apex Industrial Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is +40% 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 Apex Industrial Technologies LLC's patents?

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC's patents average 16.1 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 Apex Industrial Technologies LLC 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

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC

Q: What technology areas does Apex Industrial Technologies LLC focus on?

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC's top technology area is 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) with 5 patents, ranking #2,412 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Apex ranks #11,916 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 21 technology areas.

#11,916
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11916 · US Corporation #11,916 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,916/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alere SAN Diego
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alere SAN Diego, 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 Apex’s 42.4 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 11.3 pts (27%) Velocity 5.3 pts (13%) Breadth 16.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Horton · near

42
Urgo Recherche… · near

42
Apex Industrial · this assignee

42
GRÜNENTHAL · near

42
Vitra · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Apex's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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 Apex?

Each dot is one of Apex’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). Apex’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Apex's grants concentrate

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 20% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Apex sits between Alere SAN Diego, Inc. and Aramco Services Company.

Apex's three-year grant acceleration

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Alere SAN Diego

25
Alexza Pharmaceut…

25
Alza

25
Apator Miitors APS

25
Apex Microelectro…

25
API Intellectual…

25
Arakawa Chemical…

25
Aramco Services

25
Apex Industrial ◀

25

What this shows Apex holds 25 patents at rank #11,901, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Apex

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,901 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Apex, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Apex ranks #2,412 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Vitra AG 42 GRÜNENTHAL GMBH 42 Urgo Recherche Innovation ET Developpement 42 Horton, Inc. 42

Apex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Apex Industrial Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	4.0%
2017	5	20.0%
2019	4	16.0%
2020	5	20.0%
2021	1	4.0%
2022	4	16.0%
2023	2	8.0%
2024	2	8.0%
2025partial year	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Apex Industrial Technologies LLC patent most?

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 5

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 4

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 4

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 4

E05G - Safes OR Strong-rooms FOR VALUABLES; Bank Protection DEVICES; Safety Transaction Partitions 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 3

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 2

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 2

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 2

G01G - Weighing 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Apex Industrial Technologies LLC's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 20% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #11,916 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Apex Industrial Technologies LLC against Alere SAN Diego, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.4/100 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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