Where does Dental Components LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dental Components LLC ranks #34,989 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 Dental Components LLC hold?

Dental Components LLC holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Dental Components LLC's Innovation Score?

Dental Components LLC has an Innovation Score of 14.7 out of 100 (3rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dental Components LLC focus on?

Dental Components LLC's top technology area is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene) with 1 patents, ranking #388 of 546 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dental Components LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dental Components LLC's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Dental Components LLC's patents?

Dental Components LLC's patents average 3.0 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 Dental Components LLC 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

Dental Components LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 1 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: A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dental ranks #34,989 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 1 technology areas.

#34,989
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 3rd percentile
by Innovation Score (14.7/100): 3.0
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34989 · US Corporation #34,989 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,989/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Delfingen Fr-anteuil
CPC-NARROW A61C · 1 areas
INNOV-LOW 14.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Delfingen Fr-anteuil S.A. (±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 Dental’s 14.7 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 7.2 pts (49%) Velocity 2.2 pts (15%) Breadth 3.5 pts (24%) Claim depth 1.8 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dental Components · this assignee

15
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dental's Innovation Score is 14.7/100 (3rd percentile 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 Dental?

Each dot is one of Dental’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). Dental’s own 3.0 claims/patent is at or below the 8.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Dental's grants concentrate

Dental Components LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 14.3% of grants classified under A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Dental sits between Delfingen Fr-anteuil S.A. and Designer Brass Corporation.

Dental's three-year grant acceleration

Dental Components LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Delfingen Fr-ante…

7
Delmic IP B V

7
Dengensha TOA

7
Denki Kogyo

7
Dentca

7
Dentsply Implants

7
DER Sheng

7
Designer Brass

7
Dental Components ◀

7

What this shows Dental holds 7 patents at rank #34,950, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dental

By rank, the assignees closest to #34,950 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61C (Dentistry)

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

Dental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

15 3rd percentile higher than 3% 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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Dental Components LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	14.3%
2018	1	14.3%
2020	3	42.9%
2022	1	14.3%
2025partial year	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Dental Components LLC patent most?

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 1

Top 1 of 1 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

Dental Components LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dental Components LLC's lead technology class is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene), 14.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61C
Ranked #34,989 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dental Components LLC against Delfingen Fr-anteuil S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 14.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.