Where does Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. ranks #5,500 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 Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. hold?

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. holds 62 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Benchmade Knife Co., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.5 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. focus on?

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc.'s top technology area is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 12 patents, ranking #25 of 239 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Benchmade Knife Co., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +600% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Benchmade Knife Co., Inc.'s patents?

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc.'s patents average 4.0 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 Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. 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

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 62 granted patents across 6 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: B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Benchmade ranks #5,500 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 62 patents across 6 technology areas.

#5,500
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.5/100): 4.0
avg claims per patent: +600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5500 · US Corporation #5,500 · 62 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 62 grants
UPPER-Q #5,500/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Afiniti Europe
CPC-NARROW B26B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +600% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited (±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 Benchmade’s 39.5 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 14.3 pts (36%) Velocity 14.2 pts (36%) Breadth 8.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 2.4 pts (6%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Benchmade Knife · this assignee

40
Eveready Battery · near

40
KanDao Technology · near

40
CAO Group · near

40
CVDevices · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Benchmade's Innovation Score is 39.5/100 (top 38% 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 Benchmade?

Each dot is one of Benchmade’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). Benchmade’s own 4.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Benchmade's grants concentrate

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 19.4% of grants classified under B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Benchmade sits between Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited and Brio Water Technology, Inc..

Benchmade's three-year grant acceleration

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. shows 34 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.

Afiniti Europe

62
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62
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62
August Home

62
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62
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62
Biomet C V

62
Brio Water Techno…

62
Benchmade Knife ◀

62

What this shows Benchmade holds 62 patents at rank #5,498, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Benchmade

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,498 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Benchmade, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools), Benchmade ranks #25 of 239 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Eveready Battery Company, Inc. 40 KanDao Technology Co., Ltd. 40 CVDevices, LLC 40 CAO Group, Inc. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (4.0 here).

Deckers Outdoor Corporation 3.9 avg Venus by Maria Tash, Inc. 4.0 avg Contemporary Visions, LLC 4.0 avg Holley Performance Products, Inc. 3.9 avg

Benchmade's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 38% higher than 62% 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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Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	3.2%
2017	2	3.2%
2018	2	3.2%
2019	1	1.6%
2020	4	6.5%
2021	11	17.7%
2022	12	19.4%
2023	13	21.0%
2024	9	14.5%
2025partial year	6	9.7%

Which technologies does Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. patent most?

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 1

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

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Benchmade Knife Co., Inc.'s lead technology class is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 19.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B26B
Ranked #5,500 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Benchmade Knife Co., Inc. against Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.5/100 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

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