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Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fortune ranks #14,623 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 9 technology areas.

#14,623
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100)
10.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14623 · US Corporation #14,623 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
  • MID-PACK #14,623/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fiber Mountain
  • CPC-NARROW E03C · 9 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 10.4 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fiber Mountain, 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 Fortune’s 47.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Fortune

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Fortune's Innovation Score is 47.4/100 (top 19% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Fortune?

Each dot is one of Fortune’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). Fortune’s own 10.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Fortune vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 19.919.92020.1 051015202530 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Fiber Mountain, Inc. - 20, 22.4Fiber MountainFiskars Garden Oy Ab - 20, 2Fiskars Garden Oy…Flash Networks, Ltd - 20, 19.4Flash NetworksFornetix LLC - 20, 20.55FornetixFoveon, Inc. - 20, 14.05FoveonFractyl Health, Inc. - 20, 24.05Fractyl HealthFujian Landi Commercial Equipment Co., Ltd - 20, 8Fujian Landi Comm…Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd. - 20, 7.15Fujikura KaseiFortune Brands Water Innovations LLC - 20, 10.4Fortune Brands Wa…
Fortune vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Fortune's grants concentrate

Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 25% of grants classified under E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Fortune sits between Fiber Mountain, Inc. and Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd..

Fortune's three-year grant acceleration

Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Who files at Fortune's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Fortune holds 20 patents at rank #14,624, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Fortune

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,624 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste…)

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

Fortune's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2022 1 5.0%
2023 6 30.0%
2024 7 35.0%
2025partial year 6 30.0%

Which technologies does Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC patent most?

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC's lead technology class is E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks), 25% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E03C
  • Ranked #14,623 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC against Fiber Mountain, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 47.4/100 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

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.