Where does Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC ranks #2,410 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 Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC hold?

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC holds 162 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 56.5 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC focus on?

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC's top technology area is F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration) with 114 patents, ranking #7 of 892 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

Is Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC's patents?

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC's patents average 15.4 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC

Q: How is the Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC 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 PatentsView assignee record - 162 granted patents across 43 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: F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Firestone ranks #2,410 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 162 patents across 43 technology areas.

#2,410
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.5/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2410 · US Corporation #2,410 · 162 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 162 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,410/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Jingdong…
CPC-WIDE F16F · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Jingdong Century Trading 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 Firestone’s 56.5 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 17.6 pts (31%) Velocity 6.5 pts (12%) Breadth 23.2 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Denso Wave Incorpora… · near

56
Firestone Industrial… · this assignee

56
Integrated Device… · near

56
Prc-desoto Internati… · near

56
Wago Verwaltungsgese… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Firestone's Innovation Score is 56.5/100 (top 6% 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 Firestone?

Each dot is one of Firestone’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). Firestone’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Firestone's grants concentrate

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 70.4% of grants classified under F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (25 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2021. By volume, Firestone sits between Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd. and Spin Master Ltd..

Firestone's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC moved from 38 to 37 grants (0.97x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,254. See the growth leaderboard.

Beijing Jingdong…

162
Board of Trustees…

162
Embraer

162
Faurecia Interieu…

162
Hayward Industries

162
Medipal Holdings

162
Shiroki

162
Spin Master

162
Firestone Industr… ◀

162

What this shows Firestone holds 162 patents at rank #2,410, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Firestone

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,410 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16F (Springs)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Firestone, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16F (Springs), Firestone ranks #7 of 892 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH 56 Denso Wave Incorporated 56 Prc-desoto International, Inc. 56 Integrated Device Technology, Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Wabco GmbH 15.4 avg Surmodics, Inc. 15.4 avg Magna Seating Inc. 15.4 avg Veltek Associates, Inc. 15.4 avg

Firestone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	11.7%
2016	25	15.4%
2017	25	15.4%
2018	10	6.2%
2019	17	10.5%
2020	14	8.6%
2021	7	4.3%
2022	13	8.0%
2023	13	8.0%
2024	11	6.8%
2025partial year	8	4.9%

Which technologies does Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC patent most?

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 114

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 108

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 32

B61F - Rail Vehicle Suspensions, e.g. Underframes, Bogies OR Arrangements OF Wheel AXLES; Rail Vehicles FOR USE ON Tracks OF Different WIDTH; Preventing Derailing OF Rail VEHICLES; Wheel Guards, Obstruction Removers OR THE Like FOR Rail Vehicles 9

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 6

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 5

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 3

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B61H - Brakes OR Other Retarding Devices Specially Adapted FOR Rail VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Disposition Thereof IN Rail Vehicles 3

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 2

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

Top 15 of 43 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

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC's lead technology class is F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration), 70.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16F
Ranked #2,410 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC against Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.5/100 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.

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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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