Where does Forum US, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Forum US, Inc. ranks #2,837 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 Forum US, Inc. hold?

Forum US, Inc. holds 135 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Forum US, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Forum US, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Forum US, Inc. focus on?

Forum US, Inc.'s top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 95 patents, ranking #34 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

Is Forum US, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Forum US, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +30% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Forum US, Inc.'s patents?

Forum US, Inc.'s patents average 18.6 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 Forum US, 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

Forum US, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 135 granted patents across 57 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Forum ranks #2,837 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 135 patents across 57 technology areas.

#2,837
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: +30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2837 · US Corporation #2,837 · 135 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 135 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,837/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Baylor University
CPC-WIDE E21B · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Baylor University (±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 Forum’s 56.6 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 17.0 pts (30%) Velocity 3.4 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Forum US · this assignee

57
Intermec IP · near

57
Multinarity · near

57
Symrise · near

57
Coinbase · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Forum's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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 Forum?

Each dot is one of Forum’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). Forum’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Forum's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Forum US, Inc. received 73 grants versus 56 in 2015–2019 (+30% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class E21B accounts for 70.4% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sion Power Corporation (#2,833) and Intel Mobile Communications GmbH (#2,841).

Forum's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Forum US, Inc. moved from 66 to 34 grants (0.52x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,650. See the growth leaderboard.

Sion Power

136
Taiho Pharmaceuti…

136
Baylor University

135
Chemocentryx

135
Freni Brembo S P A

135
Geodynamics

135
Inalfa Roof Syste…

135
Intel Mobile Comm…

135
Forum US ◀

135

What this shows Forum holds 135 patents at rank #2,837, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Forum

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,837 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Forum, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Forum ranks #34 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Intermec IP Corp. 57 Symrise AG 57 Multinarity Ltd 57 Coinbase, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

V-nova International Limited 18.6 avg LinkedIn Corporation 18.6 avg RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc. 18.6 avg McAlister Technologies, LLC 18.6 avg

Forum's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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.

View data table

Forum US, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.2%
2016	6	4.4%
2017	6	4.4%
2018	14	10.4%
2019	27	20.0%
2020	29	21.5%
2021	10	7.4%
2022	6	4.4%
2023	14	10.4%
2024	14	10.4%
2025partial year	6	4.4%

Which technologies does Forum US, Inc. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 95

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 23

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 22

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 10

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 9

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 9

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 9

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 6

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 6

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

F16H - Gearing 5

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 5

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 5

B01D - Separation 5

Top 15 of 57 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

Forum US, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Forum US, Inc.'s lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 70.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #2,837 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Forum US, Inc. against Sion Power Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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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