Where does Ferplast S.p.a. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ferplast S.p.a. ranks #21,125 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Ferplast S.p.a. hold?

Ferplast S.p.a. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Ferplast S.p.a.'s Innovation Score?

Ferplast S.p.a. has an Innovation Score of 23.4 out of 100 (top 88% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ferplast S.p.a.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ferplast S.p.a.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Ferplast S.p.a.'s patents?

Ferplast S.p.a.'s patents average 5.6 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 Ferplast S.p.a. 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 Foreign Corporation

Ferplast S.p.a.

Q: What technology areas does Ferplast S.p.a. focus on?

Ferplast S.p.a.'s top technology area is A01K (ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 6 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: A01K (ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ferplast ranks #21,125 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 6 technology areas.

#21,125
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 88%
by Innovation Score (23.4/100): 5.6
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21125 · Foreign Corporation #21,125 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,125/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Eye Drop Imaging Tec…
CPC-NARROW A01K · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 23.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Eye Drop Imaging Technology, Llc (±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
Ferplast S p a · this assignee

23
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Ferplast's Innovation Score is 23.4/100 (top 88% 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 Ferplast's grants concentrate

Ferplast S.p.a. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 61.5% of grants classified under A01K (ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ferplast sits between Eye Drop Imaging Technology, Llc and FLIR Surveillance, Inc..

Eye Drop Imaging…

13
FAS Medic

13
FBS

13
FDNA

13
Ficosa ADAS S L U

13
Fincantieri S P A

13
Fipak Research An…

13
FLIR Surveillance

13
Ferplast S P A ◀

13

What this shows Ferplast holds 13 patents at rank #21,120, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ferplast

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,120 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01K (Animal Husbandry)

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

Ferplast's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

23 Top 88% higher than 12% of 50,000 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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Ferplast S.p.a. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.7%
2017	2	15.4%
2018	1	7.7%
2019	3	23.1%
2020	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2023	1	7.7%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Ferplast S.p.a. patent most?

A01K - ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS 8

F16B - DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING 2

A44C - PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS 1

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS 1

A44D - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES OR SLIDE FASTENERS, AND TO JEWELLERY, BRACELETS OR OTHER PERSONAL ADORNMENTS 1

A44B - BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,125

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

23.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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