Where does Ferno-Washington, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ferno-Washington, Inc. ranks #4,714 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 Ferno-Washington, Inc. hold?

Ferno-Washington, Inc. holds 74 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Ferno-Washington, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ferno-Washington, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ferno-Washington, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ferno-Washington, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Ferno-Washington, Inc.'s patents?

Ferno-Washington, Inc.'s patents average 12.8 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 Ferno-Washington, 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

Ferno-Washington, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Ferno-Washington, Inc. focus on?

Ferno-Washington, Inc.'s top technology area is A61G (Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices) with 50 patents, ranking #10 of 586 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 74 granted patents across 27 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: A61G (Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ferno-washington ranks #4,714 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 74 patents across 27 technology areas.

#4,714
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4714 · US Corporation #4,714 · 74 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 74 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,714/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Enlitic
CPC-FOCUS A61G · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Enlitic, 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 Ferno-washington’s 42.9 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 14.9 pts (35%) Velocity 1.9 pts (4%) Breadth 18.4 pts (43%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
3form · near

43
Angel Playing Cards · near

43
Ferno-Washington · this assignee

43
Uptake · near

43
Visa U · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ferno-washington's Innovation Score is 42.9/100 (top 30% 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 Ferno-washington?

Each dot is one of Ferno-washington’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). Ferno-washington’s own 12.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ferno-washington's grants concentrate

Ferno-Washington, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 67.6% of grants classified under A61G (Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Ferno-washington sits between EOS Products, LLC and Hefei Hualing Co., Ltd..

Ferno-washington's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ferno-Washington, Inc. moved from 28 to 8 grants (0.29x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

EOS Products

74
ETO Magnetic

74
Enlitic

74
Federal-mogul Bur…

74
Flexible Steel La…

74
Goodrich Actuatio…

74
Health Research

74
Hefei Hualing

74
Ferno-washington ◀

74

What this shows Ferno-Washington holds 74 patents at rank #4,714, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ferno-Washington

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,714 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61G (Transport)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Ferno-Washington's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ferno-Washington, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61G (Transport), Ferno-Washington ranks #10 of 586 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

3form, LLC 43 Uptake Technologies, Inc. 43 Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. 43 Visa U.S.A. Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.8 here).

Aktiebolaget Electrolux 12.8 avg Weichai Power Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg Shoei Chemical Inc. 12.8 avg Hongfujin Precision Electronics (ZHENGZHOU) Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg

Ferno-washington's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Ferno-Washington, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	10.8%
2016	13	17.6%
2017	8	10.8%
2018	9	12.2%
2019	14	18.9%
2020	7	9.5%
2021	7	9.5%
2022	5	6.8%
2023	1	1.4%
2024	2	2.7%

Which technologies does Ferno-Washington, Inc. patent most?

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 50

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 14

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 8

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 7

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 6

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

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

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 2

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 2

Top 15 of 27 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

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

Ferno-Washington, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61G (Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices), 67.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61G
Ranked #4,714 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ferno-Washington, Inc. against EOS Products, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.9/100 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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