Where does Gacw Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gacw Incorporated ranks #13,435 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 Gacw Incorporated hold?

Gacw Incorporated holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Gacw Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Gacw Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 49.1 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gacw Incorporated focus on?

Gacw Incorporated's top technology area is B60B (Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion) with 21 patents, ranking #20 of 463 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gacw Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Gacw Incorporated.

What does claim depth mean for Gacw Incorporated's patents?

Gacw Incorporated's patents average 21.1 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 Gacw Incorporated 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

Gacw Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: B60B (Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gacw ranks #13,435 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 12 technology areas.

#13,435
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.1/100): 21.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13435 · US Corporation #13,435 · 22 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,435/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Forza Silicon
CPC-FOCUS B60B · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Forza Silicon Corporation (±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 Gacw’s 49.1 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 10.8 pts (22%) Velocity 13.3 pts (27%) Breadth 12.2 pts (25%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gacw Incorporated · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gacw's Innovation Score is 49.1/100 (top 15% 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 Gacw?

Each dot is one of Gacw’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). Gacw’s own 21.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Gacw's grants concentrate

Gacw Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 95.5% of grants classified under B60B (Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Gacw sits between Forza Silicon Corporation and Gessi S.P.A..

Gacw's three-year grant acceleration

Gacw Incorporated shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Forza Silicon

22
Fossil Group

22
Furniture of Amer…

22
Fusion Holdings

22
Galtronics

22
Gapwaves AB

22
GCI Outdoor

22
Gessi S P A

22
Gacw Incorporated ◀

22

What this shows Gacw holds 22 patents at rank #13,433, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gacw

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,433 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60B (Vehicle Wheels)

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

Gacw's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Gacw Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	5	22.7%
2022	5	22.7%
2023	4	18.2%
2024	1	4.5%
2025partial year	7	31.8%

Which technologies does Gacw Incorporated patent most?

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 21

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 13

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 11

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 6

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 1

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Gacw Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gacw Incorporated's lead technology class is B60B (Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion), 95.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60B
Ranked #13,435 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gacw Incorporated against Forza Silicon Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.1/100 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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