Where does Coast Cutlery Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Coast Cutlery Co. ranks #4,148 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 Coast Cutlery Co. hold?

Coast Cutlery Co. holds 86 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Coast Cutlery Co.'s Innovation Score?

Coast Cutlery Co. has an Innovation Score of 39.5 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Coast Cutlery Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Coast Cutlery Co.'s recent grant velocity is +36% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Coast Cutlery Co.'s patents?

Coast Cutlery Co.'s patents average 3.1 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 Coast Cutlery Co. 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

Coast Cutlery Co.

Q: What technology areas does Coast Cutlery Co. focus on?

Coast Cutlery Co.'s top technology area is F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted) with 10 patents, ranking #208 of 1,359 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 86 granted patents across 9 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: F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Coast ranks #4,148 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 86 patents across 9 technology areas.

#4,148
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.5/100): 3.1
avg claims per patent: +36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4148 · US Corporation #4,148 · 86 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 86 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,148/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Technology Oy
CPC-NARROW F21Y · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Technology Oy (±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 Coast’s 39.5 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 15.4 pts (39%) Velocity 11.7 pts (30%) Breadth 10.6 pts (27%) Claim depth 1.8 pts (5%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
A10 Networks… · near

40
Coast Cutlery · this assignee

40
Contrast · near

40
Natural Extraction… · near

40
Nico · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Coast's Innovation Score is 39.5/100 (top 38% 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 Coast?

Each dot is one of Coast’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). Coast’s own 3.1 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Coast's grants concentrate

Coast Cutlery Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 11.6% of grants classified under F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (17 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2017. By volume, Coast sits between ABB Technology Oy and Esco Group LLC.

Coast's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Coast Cutlery Co. moved from 20 to 35 grants (1.75x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

ABB Technology Oy

86
American Regent

86
Broadband itv

86
Cambro Manufactur…

86
Corindus

86
Dcstar

86
Dali Systems

86
Esco Group

86
Coast Cutlery ◀

86

What this shows Coast holds 86 patents at rank #4,148, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Coast

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,148 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Coast, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k), Coast ranks #208 of 1,359 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Nico Corporation 40 A10 Networks, Incorporated 40 Contrast, Inc. 40 Natural Extraction Systems, LLC 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (3.1 here).

MTG Co., Ltd. 3.1 avg Petsmart Home Office, Inc. 3.0 avg Inno-Pak, LLC 3.1 avg Ideastream Consumer Products, LLC 3.0 avg

Coast's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 38% higher than 62% 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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Coast Cutlery Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	7.0%
2016	8	9.3%
2017	3	3.5%
2018	6	7.0%
2019	10	11.6%
2020	4	4.7%
2021	6	7.0%
2022	9	10.5%
2023	9	10.5%
2024	17	19.8%
2025partial year	8	9.3%

Which technologies does Coast Cutlery Co. patent most?

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 10

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 9

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 2

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 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

Coast Cutlery Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Coast Cutlery Co.'s lead technology class is F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted), 11.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21Y
Ranked #4,148 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Coast Cutlery Co. against ABB Technology Oy, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.5/100 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

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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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