Where does Centre Firearms Co., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Centre Firearms Co., Inc. ranks #11,594 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 Centre Firearms Co., Inc. hold?

Centre Firearms Co., Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Centre Firearms Co., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Centre Firearms Co., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.2 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Centre Firearms Co., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Centre Firearms Co., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +113% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Centre Firearms Co., Inc.'s patents?

Centre Firearms Co., Inc.'s patents average 15.0 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 Centre Firearms 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

Centre Firearms Co., Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Centre Firearms Co., Inc. focus on?

Centre Firearms Co., Inc.'s top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 15 patents, ranking #33 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Centre ranks #11,594 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 6 technology areas.

#11,594
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.2/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +113%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11594 · US Corporation #11,594 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,594/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CaptionCall
CPC-NARROW F41A · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +113% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CaptionCall, LLC (±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 Centre’s 38.2 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 11.4 pts (30%) Velocity 9.2 pts (24%) Breadth 8.7 pts (23%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Byton · near

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Centre Firearms · this assignee

38
Hikma Pharmaceutical… · near

38
Signal Pharmaceuticals · near

38
Institut DE… · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Centre's Innovation Score is 38.2/100 (top 41% 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 Centre?

Each dot is one of Centre’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). Centre’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Centre's grants concentrate

Centre Firearms Co., Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 57.7% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Centre sits between CaptionCall, LLC and Chart Energy & Chemicals, Inc..

Centre's three-year grant acceleration

Centre Firearms Co., Inc. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

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What this shows Centre holds 26 patents at rank #11,598, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Centre

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,598 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Centre, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), Centre ranks #33 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. 38 Byton Limited 38 Signal Pharmaceuticals, LLC 38 Institut DE Recherche Pour LE Developpement 38

Centre's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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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Centre Firearms Co., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.8%
2017	3	11.5%
2018	2	7.7%
2019	2	7.7%
2020	4	15.4%
2021	2	7.7%
2022	3	11.5%
2023	4	15.4%
2024	4	15.4%
2025partial year	1	3.8%

Which technologies does Centre Firearms Co., Inc. patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 15

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 11

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 5

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 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

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

Centre Firearms Co., Inc.'s lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 57.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #11,594 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Centre Firearms Co., Inc. against CaptionCall, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.2/100 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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