Where does Federal Cartridge Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Federal Cartridge Company ranks #12,007 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 Federal Cartridge Company hold?

Federal Cartridge Company holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Federal Cartridge Company's Innovation Score?

Federal Cartridge Company has an Innovation Score of 52.8 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Federal Cartridge Company focus on?

Federal Cartridge Company's top technology area is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition) with 23 patents, ranking #19 of 331 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Federal Cartridge Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Federal Cartridge Company.

What does claim depth mean for Federal Cartridge Company's patents?

Federal Cartridge Company's patents average 19.2 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 Federal Cartridge Company 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

Federal Cartridge Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Federal ranks #12,007 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 8 technology areas.

#12,007
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.8/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12007 · US Corporation #12,007 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,007/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FaceTec
CPC-NARROW F42B · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FaceTec, 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 Federal’s 52.8 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 11.3 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 10.0 pts (19%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Anumana · near

53
Federal Cartridge · this assignee

53
Montana State… · near

53
NextInput · near

53
Yoshino Gypsum · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Federal's Innovation Score is 52.8/100 (top 10% 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 Federal?

Each dot is one of Federal’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). Federal’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Federal's grants concentrate

Federal Cartridge Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 92% of grants classified under F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Federal sits between Friedrich Miescher Institute FOR Biomedical Research and Genesys Logic, Inc..

Federal's three-year grant acceleration

Federal Cartridge Company shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Friedrich Miesche…

25
Fujirebio

25
Facetec

25
Fall Creek Farm a…

25
Fluid Quip

25
Footprint Interna…

25
GCX

25
Genesys Logic

25
Federal Cartridge ◀

25

What this shows Federal holds 25 patents at rank #12,010, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Federal

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,010 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F42B (Explosive Charges)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Federal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F42B (Explosive Charges), Federal ranks #19 of 331 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

NextInput, Inc. 53 Montana State University 53 Anumana, Inc. 53 Yoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd. 53

Federal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Federal Cartridge Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	2	8.0%
2023	10	40.0%
2024	5	20.0%
2025partial year	8	32.0%

Which technologies does Federal Cartridge Company patent most?

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 23

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 5

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 3

C22C - Alloys 2

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Federal Cartridge Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Federal Cartridge Company's lead technology class is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition), 92% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F42B
Ranked #12,007 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Federal Cartridge Company against Friedrich Miescher Institute FOR Biomedical Research, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.8/100 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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