Where does Eck Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Eck Industries, Inc. ranks #21,041 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Eck Industries, Inc. hold?

Eck Industries, Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Eck Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Eck Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.4 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Eck Industries, Inc. focus on?

Eck Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is C22C (ALLOYS) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Eck Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Eck Industries, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Eck Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Eck Industries, Inc.'s patents average 18.5 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 Eck Industries, 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

Eck Industries, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: C22C (ALLOYS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Eck ranks #21,041 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 10 technology areas.

#21,041
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.4/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21041 · US Corporation #21,041 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,041/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Ear Tech
CPC-FOCUS C22C · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ear Tech, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Eck Industries · this assignee

51
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Eck's Innovation Score is 51.4/100 (top 11% 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.

Where Eck's grants concentrate

Eck Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under C22C (ALLOYS). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Eck sits between Exhart Environmental Systems, Inc. and Electric Power Science & Research Institute Of State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company.

Exhart Environmen…

13
Ear Tech

13
Eastpoint Sports

13
Easy Solar Produc…

13
Ecotech Marine

13
Eiger Biopharmace…

13
Ekornes ASA

13
Electric Power Sc…

13
Eck Industries ◀

13

What this shows Eck holds 13 patents at rank #21,076, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Eck

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,076 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C22C (Alloys)

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

Eck's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Eck Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	15.4%
2022	3	23.1%
2023	5	38.5%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	2	15.4%

Which technologies does Eck Industries, Inc. patent most?

C22C - ALLOYS 13

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 7

B22F - WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER ; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER 7

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 6

B22D - CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES 6

C22F - CHANGING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF NON-FERROUS METALS AND NON-FERROUS ALLOYS 4

B23K - SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM 3

C21D - MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING 3

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,041

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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.