Where does Encore Wire Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Encore Wire Corporation ranks #2,892 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 Encore Wire Corporation hold?

Encore Wire Corporation holds 132 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Encore Wire Corporation's Innovation Score?

Encore Wire Corporation has an Innovation Score of 53.1 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Encore Wire Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Encore Wire Corporation's recent grant velocity is +86% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Encore Wire Corporation's patents?

Encore Wire Corporation's patents average 18.2 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 Encore Wire Corporation 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

Encore Wire Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Encore Wire Corporation focus on?

Encore Wire Corporation's top technology area is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties) with 56 patents, ranking #20 of 1,055 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 132 granted patents across 28 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: H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Encore ranks #2,892 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 132 patents across 28 technology areas.

#2,892
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.1/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2892 · US Corporation #2,892 · 132 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 132 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,892/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Creative Plastic…
CPC-FOCUS H01B · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +86% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Creative Plastic Concepts, 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.

How Encore’s 53.1 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 16.9 pts (32%) Velocity 6.5 pts (12%) Breadth 18.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canon Anelva · near

53
Encore Wire · this assignee

53
Hamilton Bonaduz · near

53
Lsis · near

53
SLT · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Encore's Innovation Score is 53.1/100 (top 9% 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 Encore?

Each dot is one of Encore’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). Encore’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Encore's grants concentrate

Encore Wire Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 42.4% of grants classified under H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (21 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Encore sits between Creative Plastic Concepts, LLC and Hutchinson Technology Incorporated.

Encore's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Encore Wire Corporation moved from 47 to 46 grants (0.98x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,236. See the growth leaderboard.

Creative Plastic…

132
Dassault Aviation

132
Datamax-o'neil

132
Divergent

132
Everdisplay Optro…

132
Hangzhou Great St…

132
Hefei University…

132
Hutchinson Techno…

132
Encore Wire ◀

132

What this shows Encore holds 132 patents at rank #2,892, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Encore

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,892 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01B (Cables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Encore, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01B (Cables), Encore ranks #20 of 1,055 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Canon Anelva Corporation 53 Hamilton Bonaduz AG 53 Lsis Co., Ltd. 53 SLT Technologies, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

WIN Semiconductors Corp. 18.2 avg MobiTV, Inc. 18.2 avg Interdigital VC Holdings, Inc. 18.2 avg International Rectifier Corporation 18.2 avg

Encore's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Encore Wire Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.5%
2016	9	6.8%
2017	4	3.0%
2018	15	11.4%
2019	13	9.8%
2020	21	15.9%
2021	13	9.8%
2022	17	12.9%
2023	15	11.4%
2024	14	10.6%
2025partial year	9	6.8%

Which technologies does Encore Wire Corporation patent most?

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 56

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 48

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 31

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 25

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 23

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 19

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 19

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 12

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 9

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 9

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 9

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 8

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 6

Top 15 of 28 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

Encore Wire Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Encore Wire Corporation's lead technology class is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties), 42.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01B
Ranked #2,892 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Encore Wire Corporation against Creative Plastic Concepts, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.1/100 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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