Where does Brunswick Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brunswick Corporation ranks #493 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 Brunswick Corporation hold?

Brunswick Corporation holds 905 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 126 technology areas.

What is Brunswick Corporation's Innovation Score?

Brunswick Corporation has an Innovation Score of 66.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Brunswick Corporation focus on?

Brunswick Corporation's top technology area is B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering) with 510 patents, ranking #1 of 250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 126 CPC subclasses total.

Is Brunswick Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Brunswick Corporation's recent grant velocity is -10% 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 Brunswick Corporation's patents?

Brunswick Corporation's patents average 15.6 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 Brunswick 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

Brunswick Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 905 granted patents across 126 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: B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brunswick ranks #493 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 905 patents across 126 technology areas.

#493
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.7/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R493 · US Corporation #493 · 905 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 905 grants
TOP-DECILE #493/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Idemitsu Kosan
CPC-WIDE B63H · 126 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. (±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 Brunswick’s 66.7 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 23.5 pts (35%) Velocity 8.8 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Microchip Technology… · near

67
Brunswick · this assignee

67
STMicroelectronics… · near

67
Cornell University · near

67
THE University OF… · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brunswick's Innovation Score is 66.7/100 (top 1% 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 Brunswick?

Each dot is one of Brunswick’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). Brunswick’s own 15.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Brunswick's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Brunswick Corporation received 382 grants versus 424 in 2015–2019 (-10% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 119 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 46. Lead class B63H accounts for 56.4% of the portfolio across 126 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ofinno, LLC (#489) and BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (#497).

Brunswick's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Brunswick Corporation moved from 207 to 274 grants (1.32x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #615. See the growth leaderboard.

Ofinno

911
Silicon Motion

910
Dyson Technology

908
Mcafee

906
Idemitsu Kosan

905
Brunswick ◀

905
Dolby Internation…

903
Koito Manufacturi…

902
BAE Systems Infor…

900

What this shows Brunswick holds 905 patents at rank #493, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brunswick

By rank, the assignees closest to #493 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Brunswick, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering), Brunswick ranks #1 of 250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS 67 Microchip Technology Incorporated 67 Cornell University 67 THE University OF Warwick 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

Arizona Board OF Regents FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State University 15.6 avg Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. 15.6 avg Devicor Medical Products, Inc. 15.6 avg Alcon Research, Ltd. 15.6 avg

Brunswick's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Brunswick Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	50	5.5%
2016	72	8.0%
2017	84	9.3%
2018	119	13.1%
2019	99	10.9%
2020	46	5.1%
2021	62	6.9%
2022	83	9.2%
2023	89	9.8%
2024	102	11.3%
2025partial year	99	10.9%

Which technologies does Brunswick Corporation patent most?

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 510

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 196

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 85

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 83

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 69

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 47

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 47

F16H - Gearing 46

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 37

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 36

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 35

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 31

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 30

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 21

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 20

Top 15 of 126 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

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

Brunswick Corporation's lead technology class is B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering), 56.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63H
Ranked #493 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brunswick Corporation against Ofinno, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.7/100 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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