Where does Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC ranks #9,041 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 Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC hold?

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.4 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC focus on?

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC's top technology area is F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings) with 17 patents, ranking #44 of 753 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is -45% 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 Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC's patents?

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC's patents average 9.0 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 Garlock Sealing Technologies 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

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 20 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: F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Garlock ranks #9,041 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 20 technology areas.

#9,041
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.4/100): 9.0
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9041 · US Corporation #9,041 · 35 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,041/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fides B V
CPC-FOCUS F16J · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fides B.V. (±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 Garlock’s 35.4 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 12.4 pts (35%) Velocity 1.8 pts (5%) Breadth 15.8 pts (45%) Claim depth 5.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Garlock Sealing · this assignee

35
Geneial · near

35
Ovonyx Memory… · near

35
Hitachi Information… · near

35
Quotient Technology · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Garlock's Innovation Score is 35.4/100 (top 49% 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 Garlock?

Each dot is one of Garlock’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). Garlock’s own 9.0 claims/patent is at or below the 13.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Garlock's grants concentrate

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 48.6% of grants classified under F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Garlock sits between FPT Industrial S.P.A and Guangzhou Luxvisions Innovation Technology Limited.

Garlock's three-year grant acceleration

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

FPT Industrial S…

35
Fujifilm Wako Pur…

35
Fides B V

35
Gainspan

35
GKN Driveline Nor…

35
Global Technology

35
Gomaco

35
Guangzhou Luxvisi…

35
Garlock Sealing ◀

35

What this shows Garlock holds 35 patents at rank #9,039, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Garlock

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,039 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16J (Pistons)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Garlock, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16J (Pistons), Garlock ranks #44 of 753 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Geneial LLC 35 Ovonyx Memory Technology, LLC 35 Quotient Technology Inc. 35 Hitachi Information AND Telecommunication Engineering, Ltd. 35

Garlock's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 49% higher than 51% 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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Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	11.4%
2016	9	25.7%
2017	4	11.4%
2018	3	8.6%
2019	2	5.7%
2020	4	11.4%
2021	5	14.3%
2022	1	2.9%
2023	2	5.7%
2025partial year	1	2.9%

Which technologies does Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC patent most?

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 17

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 3

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

B01D - Separation 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC's lead technology class is F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings), 48.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16J
Ranked #9,041 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC against FPT Industrial S.P.A, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.4/100 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.