Where does Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited ranks #40,353 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 Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited hold?

Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited's Innovation Score?

Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited has an Innovation Score of 28.1 out of 100 (26th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited's patents?

Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited's patents average 21.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited

Q: What technology areas does Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited focus on?

Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited's top technology area is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Gainsborough Hardware Industries 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 PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gainsborough ranks #40,353 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 6 technology areas.

#40,353
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 26th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.1/100): 21.2
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R40353 · Foreign Corporation #40,353 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #40,353/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gachisoft
CPC-NARROW Y10T · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gachisoft 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gainsborough… · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gainsborough's Innovation Score is 28.1/100 (26th 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.

Where Gainsborough's grants concentrate

Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Gainsborough sits between Guoke RE Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. and Ganzin Technology, Inc..

Guoke RE Advanced…

6
GX Technology Can…

6
Gyre Innovations

6
Gachisoft

6
Galderma Laborato…

6
Gammex

6
Ganni A/S

6
Ganzin Technology

6
Gainsborough Hard… ◀

6

What this shows Gainsborough holds 6 patents at rank #40,468, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gainsborough

By rank, the assignees closest to #40,468 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification)

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

Gainsborough's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 26th percentile higher than 26% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	16.7%
2016	4	66.7%
2017	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited patent most?

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 5

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#40,353

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

28.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited's lead technology class is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y10T
Ranked #40,353 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gainsborough Hardware Industries Limited against Guoke RE Advanced Materials Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.1/100 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

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.