Where does CKnapp Sales, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CKnapp Sales, Inc. ranks #3,880 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 CKnapp Sales, Inc. hold?

CKnapp Sales, Inc. holds 93 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is CKnapp Sales, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

CKnapp Sales, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.0 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does CKnapp Sales, Inc. focus on?

CKnapp Sales, Inc.'s top technology area is A47B (TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture) with 16 patents, ranking #46 of 990 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is CKnapp Sales, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CKnapp Sales, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +3200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for CKnapp Sales, Inc.'s patents?

CKnapp Sales, Inc.'s patents average 5.5 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 CKnapp Sales, 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

CKnapp Sales, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 93 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: A47B (TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cknapp ranks #3,880 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 93 patents across 9 technology areas.

#3,880
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.0/100): 5.5
avg claims per patent: +3200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3880 · US Corporation #3,880 · 93 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 93 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,880/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avon Products
CPC-NARROW A47B · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +3200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avon Products, 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 Cknapp’s 38.0 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 15.7 pts (41%) Velocity 8.4 pts (22%) Breadth 10.6 pts (28%) Claim depth 3.3 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Caribou Biosciences · near

38
CKnapp Sales · this assignee

38
Guangdong Virtual… · near

38
Knapp Holding · near

38
Life Holdings PTE · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cknapp's Innovation Score is 38.0/100 (top 42% 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 Cknapp?

Each dot is one of Cknapp’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). Cknapp’s own 5.5 claims/patent is at or below the 9.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Cknapp's grants concentrate

CKnapp Sales, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 17.2% of grants classified under A47B (TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (18 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Cknapp sits between Avon Products, Inc. and Future Motion, Inc..

Cknapp's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, CKnapp Sales, Inc. moved from 30 to 38 grants (1.27x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Avon Products

93
Blackpin

93
Bundesdruckerei

93
Chang Gung Univer…

93
CSP

93
Elbee Pty

93
Fidlock

93
Future Motion

93
Cknapp Sales ◀

93

What this shows CKnapp holds 93 patents at rank #3,880, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CKnapp

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,880 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47B (Tables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CKnapp, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47B (Tables), CKnapp ranks #46 of 990 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Guangdong Virtual Reality Technology Co., Ltd. 38 Knapp Holding GmbH 38 Caribou Biosciences, Inc. 38 Life Technologies Holdings PTE Ltd 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.5 here).

Fujitsu General Limited 5.5 avg Ninebot (BEIJING) Tech Co., Ltd. 5.5 avg Hyper Ice, Inc. 5.5 avg FDK Corporation 5.5 avg

Cknapp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2019–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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CKnapp Sales, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	2.2%
2020	18	19.4%
2021	10	10.8%
2022	12	12.9%
2023	10	10.8%
2024	16	17.2%
2025partial year	25	26.9%

Which technologies does CKnapp Sales, Inc. patent most?

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 16

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 4

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 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

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 1

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 1

Top 9 of 9 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

CKnapp Sales, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

CKnapp Sales, Inc.'s lead technology class is A47B (TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture), 17.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47B
Ranked #3,880 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CKnapp Sales, Inc. against Avon Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.0/100 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

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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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