Where does Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC ranks #11,250 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 Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC hold?

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 33.0 out of 100 (43rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is +171% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC's patents?

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC's patents average 11.7 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 Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC 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

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC focus on?

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC's top technology area is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings) with 6 patents, ranking #152 of 849 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fox ranks #11,250 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 10 technology areas.

#11,250
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (33.0/100): 11.7
avg claims per patent: +171%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11250 · US Corporation #11,250 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,250/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Farapulse
CPC-FOCUS E04B · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +171% 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 Fox’s 33.0 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 (35%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 11.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fox Hardwood Lumber · this assignee

33
Integrity Products… · near

33
Lemken & KG · near

33
Metabolic Explorer · near

33
Synergy Blue · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fox's Innovation Score is 33.0/100 (43rd 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 Fox?

Each dot is one of Fox’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). Fox’s own 11.7 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.

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

Where Fox's grants concentrate

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 22.2% of grants classified under E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Fox sits between Focaltech Electronics, Ltd. and GD Energy Products, LLC.

Fox's three-year grant acceleration

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Focaltech

27
FTS Computertechn…

27
Farapulse

27
Formway Furniture

27
Fraen

27
Frieslandcampina…

27
Futaijing Precisi…

27
GD Energy Products

27
Fox Hardwood Lumb… ◀

27

What this shows Fox holds 27 patents at rank #11,249, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fox

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,249 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04B (General Building Constructions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fox, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E04B (General Building Constructions), Fox ranks #152 of 849 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Lemken GmbH & Co. KG 33 Metabolic Explorer 33 Integrity Products & Supplies Inc. 33 Synergy Blue, LLC 33

Fox's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	7.4%
2019	5	18.5%
2020	6	22.2%
2021	5	18.5%
2022	3	11.1%
2023	3	11.1%
2024	2	7.4%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC patent most?

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 6

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 5

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 5

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 3

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 2

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC's lead technology class is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings), 22.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04B
Ranked #11,250 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, LLC against Focaltech Electronics, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.0/100 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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