Where does Fasteners for Retail, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fasteners for Retail, Inc. ranks #2,456 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 Fasteners for Retail, Inc. hold?

Fasteners for Retail, Inc. holds 159 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Fasteners for Retail, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Fasteners for Retail, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fasteners for Retail, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fasteners for Retail, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +138% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fasteners for Retail, Inc.'s patents?

Fasteners for Retail, Inc.'s patents average 13.7 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 Fasteners for Retail, 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

Fasteners for Retail, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Fasteners for Retail, Inc. focus on?

Fasteners for Retail, Inc.'s top technology area is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters) with 112 patents, ranking #3 of 482 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 159 granted patents across 21 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: A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fasteners ranks #2,456 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 159 patents across 21 technology areas.

#2,456
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: +138%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2456 · US Corporation #2,456 · 159 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 159 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,456/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AtriCure
CPC-FOCUS A47F · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +138% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AtriCure, 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 Fasteners’s 57.0 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 17.5 pts (31%) Velocity 15.1 pts (26%) Breadth 16.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amcor Flexibles… · near

57
Bombardier Transport… · near

57
Fasteners for Retail · this assignee

57
Form Energy · near

57
Temptime · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fasteners's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (top 6% 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 Fasteners?

Each dot is one of Fasteners’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). Fasteners’s own 13.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fasteners's grants concentrate

Fasteners for Retail, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 70.4% of grants classified under A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (29 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2018. By volume, Fasteners sits between Valentino S.p.A. and National SUN Yat-sen University.

Fasteners's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fasteners for Retail, Inc. moved from 31 to 70 grants (2.26x 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 #151. See the growth leaderboard.

Valentino S p A

160
Veoneer US

160
Atricure

159
Elemental Scienti…

159
Insulet

159
Keter Plastic

159
LG Household & He…

159
National SUN Yat-…

159
Fasteners for Ret… ◀

159

What this shows Fasteners holds 159 patents at rank #2,456, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fasteners

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,456 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47F (Special Furniture)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fasteners, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47F (Special Furniture), Fasteners ranks #3 of 482 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Bombardier Transportation GmbH 57 Temptime Corporation 57 Form Energy, Inc. 57 Amcor Flexibles North America, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.7 here).

Embraer S.A. 13.7 avg Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. 13.7 avg SHL Group AB 13.7 avg King Slide Works Co., Ltd. 13.7 avg

Fasteners's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Fasteners for Retail, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	3.8%
2016	13	8.2%
2017	11	6.9%
2018	4	2.5%
2019	6	3.8%
2020	12	7.5%
2021	13	8.2%
2022	15	9.4%
2023	29	18.2%
2024	26	16.4%
2025partial year	24	15.1%

Which technologies does Fasteners for Retail, Inc. patent most?

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 112

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 69

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 31

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 8

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 7

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 5

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 3

F16H - Gearing 3

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

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 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

Top 15 of 21 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

Fasteners for Retail, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fasteners for Retail, Inc.'s lead technology class is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters), 70.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47F
Ranked #2,456 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fasteners for Retail, Inc. against Valentino S.p.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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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