Where does Formway Furniture Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Formway Furniture Limited ranks #11,249 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 Formway Furniture Limited hold?

Formway Furniture Limited holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Formway Furniture Limited's Innovation Score?

Formway Furniture Limited has an Innovation Score of 32.2 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Formway Furniture Limited focus on?

Formway Furniture Limited's top technology area is A47C (CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds) with 10 patents, ranking #81 of 728 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Formway Furniture Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Formway Furniture Limited's recent grant velocity is -41% 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 Formway Furniture Limited's patents?

Formway Furniture Limited's patents average 8.9 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 Formway Furniture 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

Formway Furniture Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 6 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: A47C (CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Formway ranks #11,249 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 6 technology areas.

#11,249
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.2/100): 8.9
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11249 · Foreign Corporation #11,249 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,249/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Farapulse
CPC-NARROW A47C · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Farapulse, Inc. (±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 Formway’s 32.2 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 11.5 pts (36%) Velocity 6.7 pts (21%) Breadth 8.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 5.4 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Circor Aerospace · near

32
Formway Furniture · this assignee

32
Performance… · near

32
Varidesk · near

32
Wi-Fi One · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Formway's Innovation Score is 32.2/100 (40th percentile 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 Formway?

Each dot is one of Formway’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). Formway’s own 8.9 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Formway's grants concentrate

Formway Furniture Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 37% of grants classified under A47C (CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Formway sits between First Principles, Inc. and Futaijing Precision Electronics (Yantai) Co., Ltd..

Formway's three-year grant acceleration

Formway Furniture Limited shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

First Principles

27
Focaltech

27
FTS Computertechn…

27
Farapulse

27
Fox Hardwood Lumb…

27
Fraen

27
Frieslandcampina…

27
Futaijing Precisi…

27
Formway Furniture ◀

27

What this shows Formway holds 27 patents at rank #11,248, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Formway

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,248 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47C (Chairs)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Formway, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47C (Chairs), Formway ranks #81 of 728 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Varidesk, LLC 32 Wi-Fi One, LLC 32 Performance Materials NA, Inc. 32 Circor Aerospace, Inc. 32

Formway's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% 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.

View data table

Formway Furniture Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	18.5%
2016	3	11.1%
2017	2	7.4%
2018	3	11.1%
2019	4	14.8%
2020	2	7.4%
2021	1	3.7%
2023	1	3.7%
2024	6	22.2%

Which technologies does Formway Furniture Limited patent most?

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

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 2

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 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Formway Furniture Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Formway Furniture Limited's lead technology class is A47C (CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds), 37% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47C
Ranked #11,249 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Formway Furniture Limited against First Principles, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.2/100 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

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