Where does Ferric Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ferric Inc. ranks #7,839 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 Ferric Inc. hold?

Ferric Inc. holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Ferric Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ferric Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.0 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ferric Inc. focus on?

Ferric Inc.'s top technology area is H01F (MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties) with 31 patents, ranking #53 of 1,360 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

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

Ferric Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -5% 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 Ferric Inc.'s patents?

Ferric Inc.'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 Ferric 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

Ferric Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H01F (MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ferric ranks #7,839 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 18 technology areas.

#7,839
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.0/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: -5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7839 · US Corporation #7,839 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,839/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Exact Sciences…
CPC-FOCUS H01F · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Exact Sciences Development Company, 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.

How Ferric’s 43.0 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 12.9 pts (30%) Velocity 3.5 pts (8%) Breadth 15.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dicon Fiberoptics · near

43
Ferric · this assignee

43
Kennedy Valve · near

43
Silicon Integrated… · near

43
Ward-Kraft · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ferric's Innovation Score is 43.0/100 (top 29% 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 Ferric?

Each dot is one of Ferric’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). Ferric’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ferric's grants concentrate

Ferric Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 75.6% of grants classified under H01F (MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Ferric sits between Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC and GED Integrated Solutions, Inc..

Ferric's three-year grant acceleration

Ferric Inc. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Exact Sciences De…

41
Fine M-tec

41
Formosa Epitaxy I…

41
Fujifilm Toyama C…

41
Foret Plasma Labs

41
Fotonation Cayman

41
GE Oil & Gas ESP

41
GED Integrated So…

41
Ferric ◀

41

What this shows Ferric holds 41 patents at rank #7,842, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ferric

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,842 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01F (Magnets)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ferric, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01F (Magnets), Ferric ranks #53 of 1,360 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Ward-Kraft, Inc. 43 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. 43 Kennedy Valve Company 43 Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. 43

Ferric's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ferric Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	7.3%
2017	5	12.2%
2018	5	12.2%
2019	7	17.1%
2020	4	9.8%
2021	6	14.6%
2022	2	4.9%
2023	1	2.4%
2024	6	14.6%
2025partial year	2	4.9%

Which technologies does Ferric Inc. patent most?

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 31

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 19

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 16

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 9

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 4

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 2

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 2

H04B - Transmission 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 1

Top 15 of 18 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

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

Ferric Inc.'s lead technology class is H01F (MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties), 75.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01F
Ranked #7,839 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ferric Inc. against Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.0/100 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

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.