Where does Direct Wheel, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Direct Wheel, Inc. ranks #21,011 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 Direct Wheel, Inc. hold?

Direct Wheel, Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Direct Wheel, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Direct Wheel, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 9.7 out of 100 (1st 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 Direct Wheel, Inc. focus on?

Direct Wheel, Inc. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Direct Wheel, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Direct Wheel, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Direct Wheel, Inc.'s patents?

Direct Wheel, Inc.'s patents average 1.0 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 Direct Wheel, 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

Direct Wheel, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Direct ranks #21,011 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 0 technology areas.

#21,011
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 1st percentile
by Innovation Score (9.7/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21011 · US Corporation #21,011 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,011/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Digits Financial
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-LOW 9.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Digits Financial, 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 Direct’s 9.7 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 9.1 pts (94%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (6%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Direct Wheel · this assignee

10
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Direct's Innovation Score is 9.7/100 (1st 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 Direct?

Each dot is one of Direct’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). Direct’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 18.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Direct's grants concentrate

Direct Wheel, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Direct sits between Digits Financial, Inc. and Dominant Technologies, LLC.

Digits Financial

13
Diogenes

13
Dioxycle

13
Dirac Research AB

13
Displays by Marti…

13
Dixon Valve & Cou…

13
Dometic

13
Dominant

13
Direct Wheel ◀

13

What this shows Direct holds 13 patents at rank #21,023, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Direct

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,023 in granted patent volume.

Direct's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

10 1st percentile higher than 1% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Direct Wheel, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2016	5	38.5%
2017	6	46.2%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Direct Wheel, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #21,011 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
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Innovation Score of 9.7/100 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.