Where does Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. ranks #11,265 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 Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. hold?

Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.4 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patents?

Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patents average 22.4 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 Gray Manufacturing 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

Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. focus on?

Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 27 patents, ranking #14 of 447 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gray ranks #11,265 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 13 technology areas.

#11,265
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.4/100): 22.4
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11265 · US Corporation #11,265 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,265/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gemalto M2M
CPC-FOCUS B66F · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gemalto M2M GmbH (±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 Gray’s 43.4 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 11.5 pts (26%) Velocity 5.7 pts (13%) Breadth 12.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carbios · near

43
Chdi Foundation · near

43
Delta Kogyo · near

43
Gray Manufacturing · this assignee

43
LIH Yann Industrial · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gray's Innovation Score is 43.4/100 (top 28% 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 Gray?

Each dot is one of Gray’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). Gray’s own 22.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Gray's grants concentrate

Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Gray sits between Gemalto M2M GmbH and Halio, Inc..

Gray's three-year grant acceleration

Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Gemalto M2M

27
Genvec

27
Graduate School a…

27
Grandios

27
Guangzhou Kugou C…

27
Gurit (UK)

27
H4X e U

27
Halio

27
Gray Manufacturing ◀

27

What this shows Gray holds 27 patents at rank #11,266, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gray

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,266 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B66F (Hoisting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gray, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B66F (Hoisting), Gray ranks #14 of 447 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Carbios 43 LIH Yann Industrial Co., Ltd. 43 Delta Kogyo Co., Ltd. 43 Chdi Foundation, Inc. 43

Gray's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	11.1%
2017	4	14.8%
2018	7	25.9%
2019	5	18.5%
2020	2	7.4%
2022	2	7.4%
2023	2	7.4%
2024	2	7.4%

Which technologies does Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. patent most?

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 27

H04B - Transmission 10

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

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 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

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

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

Top 13 of 13 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

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

Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B66F
Ranked #11,265 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc. against Gemalto M2M GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.4/100 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

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