Where does Fineline Technologies rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fineline Technologies ranks #16,798 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 Fineline Technologies hold?

Fineline Technologies holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Fineline Technologies's Innovation Score?

Fineline Technologies has an Innovation Score of 42.5 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%).

What technology areas does Fineline Technologies focus on?

Fineline Technologies's top technology area is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers) with 16 patents, ranking #141 of 1,953 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fineline Technologies's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Fineline Technologies.

What does claim depth mean for Fineline Technologies's patents?

Fineline Technologies's patents average 16.5 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 Fineline Technologies 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

Fineline Technologies

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fineline ranks #16,798 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 5 technology areas.

#16,798
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16798 · US Corporation #16,798 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,798/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FASOO COM
CPC-NARROW G06K · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FASOO.COM Co., Ltd. (±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 Fineline’s 42.5 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 10.0 pts (24%) Velocity 14.7 pts (35%) Breadth 7.9 pts (19%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fineline · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Fineline's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (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 Fineline?

Each dot is one of Fineline’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). Fineline’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fineline's grants concentrate

Fineline Technologies is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 94.1% of grants classified under G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Fineline sits between FASOO.COM Co., Ltd. and Flir Systems Trading Belgium BV.

Fineline's three-year grant acceleration

Fineline Technologies shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Fasoo COM

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Fineline ◀

17

What this shows Fineline holds 17 patents at rank #16,796, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fineline

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,796 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06K (Graphical Data Reading)

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

Fineline's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 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 · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Fineline Technologies patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	11.8%
2021	3	17.6%
2022	3	17.6%
2023	4	23.5%
2024	4	23.5%
2025partial year	1	5.9%

Which technologies does Fineline Technologies patent most?

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 16

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 11

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 8

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 3

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Fineline Technologies's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fineline Technologies's lead technology class is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers), 94.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06K
Ranked #16,798 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fineline Technologies against FASOO.COM Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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.