Where does Graco Children's Products, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Graco Children's Products, Inc. ranks #5,285 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 Graco Children's Products, Inc. hold?

Graco Children's Products, Inc. holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Graco Children's Products, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Graco Children's Products, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.0 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Graco Children's Products, Inc. focus on?

Graco Children's Products, Inc.'s top technology area is A47D (Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children) with 27 patents, ranking #6 of 107 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Graco Children's Products, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Graco Children's Products, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -42% 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 Graco Children's Products, Inc.'s patents?

Graco Children's Products, Inc.'s patents average 15.6 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 Graco Children's Products, 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

Graco Children's Products, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 16 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: A47D (Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Graco ranks #5,285 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 16 technology areas.

#5,285
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.0/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: -42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5285 · US Corporation #5,285 · 65 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,285/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Evapco
CPC-FOCUS A47D · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Evapco, 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 Graco’s 43.0 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 14.5 pts (34%) Velocity 5.0 pts (12%) Breadth 14.1 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cooler Master… · near

43
Coplus · near

43
Graco Children's… · this assignee

43
Qwest Communications… · near

43
Nelson Irrigation · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Graco's Innovation Score is 43.0/100 (top 29% 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 Graco?

Each dot is one of Graco’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). Graco’s own 15.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Graco's grants concentrate

Graco Children's Products, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 41.5% of grants classified under A47D (Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (17 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Graco sits between Evapco, Inc. and Hydac Technology GMBH.

Graco's three-year grant acceleration

Graco Children's Products, Inc. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Evapco

65
Fuji Seal Interna…

65
Foxlink Image Tec…

65
Galvani Bioelectr…

65
Gachon University…

65
Glaukos

65
Hisense

65
Hydac Technology

65
Graco Children's… ◀

65

What this shows Graco holds 65 patents at rank #5,283, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Graco

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,283 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47D (Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Graco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47D (Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children), Graco ranks #6 of 107 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Qwest Communications International Inc. 43 Coplus Inc. 43 Nelson Irrigation Corporation 43 Cooler Master Technology Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

Beijing Funate Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. 15.6 avg Engineered Controls International, LLC 15.6 avg Colopl, Inc. 15.6 avg Cryovac, LLC 15.6 avg

Graco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% 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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Graco Children's Products, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	26.2%
2016	5	7.7%
2017	5	7.7%
2018	5	7.7%
2019	6	9.2%
2020	6	9.2%
2021	4	6.2%
2022	3	4.6%
2023	2	3.1%
2024	7	10.8%
2025partial year	5	7.7%

Which technologies does Graco Children's Products, Inc. patent most?

A47D - Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children 27

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 25

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 14

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 3

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 1

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Graco Children's Products, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Graco Children's Products, Inc.'s lead technology class is A47D (Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children), 41.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47D
Ranked #5,285 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Graco Children's Products, Inc. against Evapco, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.0/100 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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