Where does Gates Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gates Corporation ranks #2,142 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 Gates Corporation hold?

Gates Corporation holds 184 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 72 technology areas.

What is Gates Corporation's Innovation Score?

Gates Corporation has an Innovation Score of 55.4 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gates Corporation focus on?

Gates Corporation's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 78 patents, ranking #57 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 72 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gates Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gates Corporation's recent grant velocity is -31% 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 Gates Corporation's patents?

Gates Corporation's patents average 13.0 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 Gates Corporation 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

Gates Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 184 granted patents across 72 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gates ranks #2,142 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 184 patents across 72 technology areas.

#2,142
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.4/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2142 · US Corporation #2,142 · 184 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 184 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,142/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adtran
CPC-WIDE F16H · 72 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adtran, 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 Gates’s 55.4 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 18.0 pts (33%) Velocity 4.5 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gates · this assignee

55
Lehigh University · near

55
Mastercard Canada ULC · near

55
Simmonds Precision… · near

55
Taipei Medical… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gates's Innovation Score is 55.4/100 (top 7% 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 Gates?

Each dot is one of Gates’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). Gates’s own 13.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Gates's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Gates Corporation received 72 grants versus 104 in 2015–2019 (-31% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 25 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 8. Lead class F16H accounts for 42.4% of the portfolio across 72 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Adtran, Inc. (#2,138) and Pioneer Square Brands, Inc. (#2,146).

Gates's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gates Corporation moved from 50 to 34 grants (0.68x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,210. See the growth leaderboard.

Adtran

184
Dart Industries

184
ETH Zurich

184
Foundation OF Soo…

184
Keio University

184
Live Nation Enter…

184
Noritz

184
Pioneer Square Br…

184
Gates ◀

184

What this shows Gates holds 184 patents at rank #2,142, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gates

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,142 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gates, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16H (Gearing), Gates ranks #57 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Simmonds Precision Products, Inc. 55 Lehigh University 55 Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC 55 Taipei Medical University 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.0 here).

UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University 13.0 avg Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH 13.0 avg Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH 13.0 avg The Sherwin-Williams Company 13.0 avg

Gates's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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.

View data table

Gates Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	13.6%
2016	25	13.6%
2017	23	12.5%
2018	19	10.3%
2019	12	6.5%
2020	16	8.7%
2021	22	12.0%
2022	8	4.3%
2023	9	4.9%
2024	17	9.2%
2025partial year	8	4.3%

Which technologies does Gates Corporation patent most?

F16H - Gearing 78

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 53

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 27

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 26

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 24

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 21

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 12

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 12

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 9

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 9

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 7

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 7

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 7

B62M - Rider Propulsion OF Wheeled Vehicles OR SLEDGES; Powered Propulsion OF Sledges OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; Transmissions Specially Adapted FOR Such Vehicles 7

Top 15 of 72 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Gates Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gates Corporation's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 42.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #2,142 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gates Corporation against Adtran, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.4/100 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.