Where does Great Plains Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Great Plains Industries, Inc. ranks #31,814 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 Great Plains Industries, Inc. hold?

Great Plains Industries, Inc. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Great Plains Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Great Plains Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 14.9 out of 100 (3rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Great Plains Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Great Plains Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Great Plains Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Great Plains Industries, Inc.'s patents average 1.9 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 Great Plains Industries, 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

Great Plains Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Great Plains Industries, Inc. focus on?

Great Plains Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 1 patents, ranking #1,134 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Great ranks #31,814 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 1 technology areas.

#31,814
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 3rd percentile
by Innovation Score (14.9/100): 1.9
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31814 · US Corporation #31,814 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,814/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Graham Engineering
CPC-NARROW F16L · 1 areas
INNOV-LOW 14.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Graham Engineering Company, 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 Great’s 14.9 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 7.6 pts (51%) Velocity 2.7 pts (18%) Breadth 3.5 pts (23%) Claim depth 1.1 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Great Plains… · this assignee

15
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Great's Innovation Score is 14.9/100 (3rd percentile 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 Great?

Each dot is one of Great’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). Great’s own 1.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Great's grants concentrate

Great Plains Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 12.5% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Great sits between Graham Engineering Company, LLC and GreenTec-USA, Inc..

Great's three-year grant acceleration

Great Plains Industries, Inc. shows 2 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.

Graham Engineering

8
Gray Research

8
Graymont (PA)

8
Great Circle

8
Green Manufacturi…

8
Green Source Hold…

8
Green Swan

8
Greentec-usa

8
Great Plains Indu… ◀

8

What this shows Great holds 8 patents at rank #31,833, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Great

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,833 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Great's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

15 3rd percentile higher than 3% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Great Plains Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	4	50.0%
2020	1	12.5%
2022	2	25.0%
2025partial year	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Great Plains Industries, Inc. patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

Top 1 of 1 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

Great Plains Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Great Plains Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 12.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #31,814 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Great Plains Industries, Inc. against Graham Engineering Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 14.9/100 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

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.