Where does Fives Landis Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fives Landis Limited ranks #22,582 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 Fives Landis Limited hold?

Fives Landis Limited holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Fives Landis Limited's Innovation Score?

Fives Landis Limited has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fives Landis Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fives Landis Limited's recent grant velocity is -20% 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 Fives Landis Limited's patents?

Fives Landis Limited's patents average 19.6 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 Fives Landis Limited 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

Fives Landis Limited

Q: What technology areas does Fives Landis Limited focus on?

Fives Landis Limited's top technology area is B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents) with 9 patents, ranking #65 of 468 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 7 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: B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fives ranks #22,582 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 7 technology areas.

#22,582
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22582 · Foreign Corporation #22,582 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,582/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Feinmetall
CPC-NARROW B24B · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Feinmetall GmbH (±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 Fives’s 43.3 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 8.9 pts (21%) Velocity 13.3 pts (31%) Breadth 9.4 pts (22%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fives Landis · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fives's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 Fives?

Each dot is one of Fives’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). Fives’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fives's grants concentrate

Fives Landis Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Fives sits between Feinmetall GmbH and Focus Universal Inc..

Fives's three-year grant acceleration

Fives Landis Limited shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Feinmetall

12
Fiagon

12
Fibro Source U

12
Fivestar Gourmet…

12
Flexenable Techno…

12
Flexitallic Inves…

12
Flowjo

12
Focus Universal

12
Fives Landis ◀

12

What this shows Fives holds 12 patents at rank #22,603, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fives

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,603 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B24B (Machines)

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

Fives's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% 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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Fives Landis Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	8.3%
2017	2	16.7%
2019	2	16.7%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	2	16.7%
2024	1	8.3%
2025partial year	3	25.0%

Which technologies does Fives Landis Limited patent most?

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 9

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 1

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

B23B - TURNING; Boring 1

Top 7 of 7 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

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Fives Landis Limited's lead technology class is B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B24B
Ranked #22,582 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fives Landis Limited against Feinmetall GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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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