Where does Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC ranks #4,466 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 Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC hold?

Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC holds 79 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC's Innovation Score?

Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC has an Innovation Score of 40.8 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC focus on?

Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 79 patents. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC's recent grant velocity is -68% 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 Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC's patents?

Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC's patents average 13.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC

Q: How is the Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company 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 PatentsView assignee record - 79 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fallbrook ranks #4,466 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 79 patents across 18 technology areas.

#4,466
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.8/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4466 · US Corporation #4,466 · 79 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 79 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,466/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ECA Medical…
CPC-FOCUS F16H · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ECA Medical Instruments (±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
Dick's Sporting Goods · near

41
Fallbrook Intellectu… · this assignee

41
Sanyo Special Steel · near

41
Selig Sealing Products · near

41
VCE IP Holding · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fallbrook's Innovation Score is 40.8/100 (top 35% 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 Fallbrook's grants concentrate

Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F16H (Gearing). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Fallbrook sits between ECA Medical Instruments and Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company.

Fallbrook's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC moved from 21 to 9 grants (0.43x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

ECA Medical Instr…

79
Elan Microelectro…

79
Enel X North Amer…

79
Exelis

79
Guangdong Brunp R…

79
Grand Mate

79
Great Plains Manu…

79
Gula Consulting L…

79
Fallbrook Intelle… ◀

79

What this shows Fallbrook holds 79 patents at rank #4,466, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fallbrook

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,466 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fallbrook, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

VCE IP Holding Company LLC 41 Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. 41 Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd. 41 Selig Sealing Products, Inc. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.0 here).

Guangzhou Haoyang Electronic Co., Ltd. 13.0 avg EM Microelectronic-Marin SA 13.0 avg Zhongshan Innocloud Intellectual Property Services Co., Ltd. 13.0 avg Semiconductor Manufacturing (Shanghai) International Corporation 13.0 avg

Fallbrook's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	10.1%
2016	12	15.2%
2017	13	16.5%
2018	16	20.3%
2019	11	13.9%
2020	7	8.9%
2021	3	3.8%
2022	4	5.1%
2023	3	3.8%
2024	2	2.5%

Which technologies does Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC patent most?

F16H - Gearing 79

B62M - Rider Propulsion OF Wheeled Vehicles OR SLEDGES; Powered Propulsion OF Sledges OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; Transmissions Specially Adapted FOR Such Vehicles 34

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 29

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 15

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 12

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 10

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 8

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 7

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 6

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 3

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,466

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

40.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #4,466 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC against ECA Medical Instruments, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.8/100 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

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