Where does Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company ranks #14,518 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 Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company hold?

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company's Innovation Score?

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company has an Innovation Score of 40.5 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company focus on?

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company's top technology area is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors) with 18 patents, ranking #28 of 584 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company's recent grant velocity is +117% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company's patents?

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company's patents average 18.7 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 Carefree/Scott Fetzer 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

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 10 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: E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carefree/scott ranks #14,518 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 10 technology areas.

#14,518
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.5/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +117%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14518 · US Corporation #14,518 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,518/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Campbell Soup
CPC-FOCUS E04F · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +117% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Campbell Soup Company (±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 Carefree/scott’s 40.5 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 10.5 pts (26%) Velocity 7.6 pts (19%) Breadth 11.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carefree/Scott Fetzer · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Carefree/scott's Innovation Score is 40.5/100 (top 35% 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 Carefree/scott?

Each dot is one of Carefree/scott’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). Carefree/scott’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Carefree/scott's grants concentrate

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Carefree/scott sits between Campbell Soup Company and Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H..

Carefree/scott's three-year grant acceleration

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Campbell Soup

20
Canfield Scientif…

20
Canoe Ventures

20
Canplas Industries

20
Carrier Japan

20
Cathrx

20
Centre Hospitalie…

20
Ceratizit Austria…

20
Carefree/Scott Fe… ◀

20

What this shows Carefree/Scott holds 20 patents at rank #14,536, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carefree/Scott

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,536 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Carefree/Scott's primary technology class.

Carefree/scott's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% 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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Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.0%
2016	1	5.0%
2017	1	5.0%
2018	1	5.0%
2019	2	10.0%
2020	2	10.0%
2021	3	15.0%
2022	3	15.0%
2023	2	10.0%
2024	3	15.0%
2025partial year	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company patent most?

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 18

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 5

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 1

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company's lead technology class is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors), 90% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04F
Ranked #14,518 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company against Campbell Soup Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.5/100 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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