Where does Gaither Tool Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gaither Tool Company, Inc. ranks #19,799 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 Gaither Tool Company, Inc. hold?

Gaither Tool Company, Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Gaither Tool Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Gaither Tool Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.9 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gaither Tool Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gaither Tool Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +60% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gaither Tool Company, Inc.'s patents?

Gaither Tool Company, Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 Gaither Tool Company, 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

Gaither Tool Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Gaither Tool Company, Inc. focus on?

Gaither Tool Company, Inc.'s top technology area is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres) with 10 patents, ranking #60 of 319 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 9 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: B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gaither ranks #19,799 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 9 technology areas.

#19,799
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.9/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19799 · US Corporation #19,799 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,799/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Garrison Dental…
CPC-NARROW B60C · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Garrison Dental Solutions, LLC (±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 Gaither’s 35.9 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 9.4 pts (26%) Velocity 5.3 pts (15%) Breadth 10.6 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gaither Tool · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gaither's Innovation Score is 35.9/100 (top 48% 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 Gaither?

Each dot is one of Gaither’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). Gaither’s own 17.7 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.

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

Where Gaither's grants concentrate

Gaither Tool Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Gaither sits between Grenova, Inc. and Geico S.p.A..

Gaither's three-year grant acceleration

Gaither Tool Company, Inc. shows 4 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.

Grenova

14
Guala Technology

14
Guangdong Univers…

14
Guangzhou Seagull…

14
Garrison Dental S…

14
Garrity Power Ser…

14
Gebr Becker

14
Geico S p A

14
Gaither Tool ◀

14

What this shows Gaither holds 14 patents at rank #19,817, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gaither

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,817 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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

Gaither's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% 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.

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Gaither Tool Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	14.3%
2017	2	14.3%
2019	1	7.1%
2020	2	14.3%
2021	2	14.3%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	1	7.1%
2024	2	14.3%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Gaither Tool Company, Inc. patent most?

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 5

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 1

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 1

F41B - Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Gaither Tool Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gaither Tool Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60C
Ranked #19,799 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gaither Tool Company, Inc. against Grenova, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.9/100 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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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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