Where does Brentwood Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brentwood Industries, Inc. ranks #11,948 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 Brentwood Industries, Inc. hold?

Brentwood Industries, Inc. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Brentwood Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Brentwood Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Brentwood Industries, Inc. focus on?

Brentwood Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application) with 15 patents, ranking #50 of 794 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Brentwood Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Brentwood Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +280% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Brentwood Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Brentwood Industries, Inc.'s patents average 20.5 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 Brentwood Industries, 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

Brentwood Industries, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 29 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: F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brentwood ranks #11,948 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 29 technology areas.

#11,948
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: +280%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11948 · US Corporation #11,948 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,948/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Blue Danube Systems
CPC-FOCUS F28F · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +280% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Blue Danube Systems, 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 Brentwood’s 57.0 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 (20%) Velocity 14.4 pts (25%) Breadth 19.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brentwood Industries · this assignee

57
Hallmark Cards… · near

57
Innovator Energy · near

57
Rowan University · near

57
S&P Global · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brentwood's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (top 6% 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 Brentwood?

Each dot is one of Brentwood’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). Brentwood’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Brentwood's grants concentrate

Brentwood Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Brentwood sits between Blue Danube Systems, Inc. and Capcom Co., Ltd..

Brentwood's three-year grant acceleration

Brentwood Industries, Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Blue Danube Syste…

25
Blue Origin Manuf…

25
Bluefin Payment S…

25
Brelyon

25
Brightview

25
C Rob Hammerstein…

25
Cairdac

25
Capcom

25
Brentwood Industr… ◀

25

What this shows Brentwood holds 25 patents at rank #11,950, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brentwood

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,950 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Brentwood, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus), Brentwood ranks #50 of 794 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Innovator Energy LLC. 57 Rowan University 57 S&P Global Inc. 57 Hallmark Cards, Incorporated 57

Brentwood's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Brentwood Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	4.0%
2017	4	16.0%
2020	2	8.0%
2021	4	16.0%
2022	7	28.0%
2023	4	16.0%
2024	2	8.0%
2025partial year	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Brentwood Industries, Inc. patent most?

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 15

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 9

F28C - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media Come Into Direct Contact Without Chemical Interaction 7

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 7

B01D - Separation 5

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

Top 15 of 29 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

Brentwood Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Brentwood Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F28F
Ranked #11,948 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brentwood Industries, Inc. against Blue Danube Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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.