Where does Fives Stein rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fives Stein ranks #15,282 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 Stein hold?

Fives Stein holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Fives Stein's Innovation Score?

Fives Stein 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 Stein's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fives Stein's recent grant velocity is -11% 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 Stein's patents?

Fives Stein's patents average 13.3 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 Stein 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 Stein

Q: What technology areas does Fives Stein focus on?

Fives Stein's top technology area is C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering) with 9 patents, ranking #49 of 428 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 21 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: C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fives ranks #15,282 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 21 technology areas.

#15,282
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.2/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15282 · Foreign Corporation #15,282 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,282/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FCX Solar
CPC-FOCUS C21D · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FCX Solar 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 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 10.3 pts (28%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 16.2 pts (45%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fives Stein · this assignee

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 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Fives's grants concentrate

Fives Stein is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 47.4% of grants classified under C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Fives sits between FCX Solar LLC and Fresca Medical, Inc..

Fives's three-year grant acceleration

Fives Stein shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

FCX Solar

19
Fermentalg

19
Fidessa Trading UK

19
Firetide

19
Forage Innovation…

19
Foundry Networks

19
Freie UniversitÄT…

19
Fresca Medical

19
Fives Stein ◀

19

What this shows Fives holds 19 patents at rank #15,272, 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 #15,272 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous Metals)

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)

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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Fives Stein patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	15.8%
2016	1	5.3%
2017	2	10.5%
2018	1	5.3%
2019	2	10.5%
2020	1	5.3%
2021	5	26.3%
2022	2	10.5%
2025partial year	2	10.5%

Which technologies does Fives Stein patent most?

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 9

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 6

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 6

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 5

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 3

F23D - Burners 3

C23G - Cleaning OR De-greasing OF Metallic Material BY Chemical Methods Other Than Electrolysis 3

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

F23L - Supplying AIR OR Non-combustible Liquids OR Gases TO Combustion Apparatus IN General ; Valves OR Dampers Specially Adapted FOR Controlling AIR Supply OR Draught IN Combustion Apparatus ; Inducing Draught IN Combustion APPARATUS; Tops FOR Chimneys OR Ventilating SHAFTS; Terminals FOR Flues 1

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 1

G01G - Weighing 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 15 of 21 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 Stein's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fives Stein's lead technology class is C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering), 47.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C21D
Ranked #15,282 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fives Stein against FCX Solar LLC, 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

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.