Where does Fives Machining Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fives Machining Systems, Inc. ranks #22,583 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 Machining Systems, Inc. hold?

Fives Machining Systems, Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Fives Machining Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Fives Machining Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.2 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fives Machining Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fives Machining Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fives Machining Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Fives Machining Systems, Inc.'s patents average 13.9 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 Machining Systems, 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

Fives Machining Systems, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Fives Machining Systems, Inc. focus on?

Fives Machining Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing) with 12 patents, ranking #508 of 4,378 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fives ranks #22,583 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 5 technology areas.

#22,583
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.2/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22583 · US Corporation #22,583 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,583/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fine Sinter
CPC-NARROW B29C · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fine Sinter 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 Fives’s 36.2 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 (25%) Velocity 11.1 pts (31%) Breadth 7.9 pts (22%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Caldwell Manufacturi… · near

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Fives Machining… · this assignee

36
Nagano Keiki · near

36
PCT International · near

36
Take-two Interactive… · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fives's Innovation Score is 36.2/100 (top 47% 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 13.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 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 Machining Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Fives sits between Fine Sinter Co., Ltd. and Floriey Industries International Co., Ltd..

Fives's three-year grant acceleration

Fives Machining Systems, Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Fine Sinter

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12
Fisher Jeon GAS E…

12
Fisker IP/Austria…

12
Flexcon

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Flintstone Techno…

12
Flipp

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Floriey Industrie…

12
Fives Machining S… ◀

12

What this shows Fives holds 12 patents at rank #22,575, 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 #22,575 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fives, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics), Fives ranks #508 of 4,378 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

PCT International, Inc. 36 Caldwell Manufacturing Company North America, LLC 36 Nagano Keiki Co., Ltd. 36 Take-two Interactive Software, Inc. 36

Fives's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fives Machining Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	1	8.3%
2018	2	16.7%
2021	3	25.0%
2022	3	25.0%
2023	1	8.3%
2024	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Fives Machining Systems, Inc. patent most?

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 12

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

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Fives Machining Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fives Machining Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #22,583 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fives Machining Systems, Inc. against Fine Sinter Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.2/100 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

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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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