Where does Fellowes, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fellowes, Inc. ranks #4,291 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 Fellowes, Inc. hold?

Fellowes, Inc. holds 83 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Fellowes, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Fellowes, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.9 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fellowes, Inc. focus on?

Fellowes, Inc.'s top technology area is B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain) with 14 patents, ranking #16 of 384 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

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

Fellowes, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Fellowes, Inc.'s patents?

Fellowes, Inc.'s patents average 15.7 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 Fellowes, 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

Fellowes, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 83 granted patents across 38 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: B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fellowes ranks #4,291 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 83 patents across 38 technology areas.

#4,291
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.9/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4291 · US Corporation #4,291 · 83 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 83 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,291/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Theatre Controls
CPC-FOCUS B02C · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Electronic Theatre Controls, 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 Fellowes’s 49.9 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 15.3 pts (31%) Velocity 3.3 pts (7%) Breadth 21.8 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alibaba Singapore… · near

50
Connectify · near

50
Fellowes · this assignee

50
Galderma Holding · near

50
Uster · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fellowes's Innovation Score is 49.9/100 (top 14% 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 Fellowes?

Each dot is one of Fellowes’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). Fellowes’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fellowes's grants concentrate

Fellowes, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 16.9% of grants classified under B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (15 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Fellowes sits between EMS-Patent AG and Incipio, LLC.

Fellowes's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fellowes, Inc. moved from 28 to 14 grants (0.50x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Ems-patent

83
Theatre Controls

83
Elemental LED

83
Etron Technology

83
Flodesign Sonics

83
Gogo

83
Hopkins Manufactu…

83
Incipio

83
Fellowes ◀

83

What this shows Fellowes holds 83 patents at rank #4,291, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fellowes

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,291 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B02C (Crushing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fellowes, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B02C (Crushing), Fellowes ranks #16 of 384 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Galderma Holding SA 50 Connectify, Inc. 50 Uster Technologies AG 50 Alibaba Singapore Holding Private Limited 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited 15.7 avg GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property (No. 4) Limited 15.7 avg Evogene Ltd. 15.7 avg Bystronic Laser AG 15.7 avg

Fellowes's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Fellowes, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	18.1%
2016	7	8.4%
2017	8	9.6%
2018	6	7.2%
2019	8	9.6%
2020	13	15.7%
2021	7	8.4%
2022	6	7.2%
2023	5	6.0%
2024	3	3.6%
2025partial year	5	6.0%

Which technologies does Fellowes, Inc. patent most?

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 14

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 12

H04M - Telephonic Communication 10

H04B - Transmission 9

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 9

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 7

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 4

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 4

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 3

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

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

Top 15 of 38 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

Fellowes, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fellowes, Inc.'s lead technology class is B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain), 16.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B02C
Ranked #4,291 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fellowes, Inc. against EMS-Patent AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.9/100 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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