Where does Greenlee Tools, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Greenlee Tools, Inc. ranks #6,335 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 Greenlee Tools, Inc. hold?

Greenlee Tools, Inc. holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Greenlee Tools, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Greenlee Tools, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.0 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Greenlee Tools, Inc. focus on?

Greenlee Tools, Inc.'s top technology area is H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines) with 19 patents, ranking #49 of 985 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is Greenlee Tools, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Greenlee Tools, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +282% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Greenlee Tools, Inc.'s patents?

Greenlee Tools, Inc.'s patents average 18.4 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 Greenlee Tools, 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

Greenlee Tools, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 36 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Greenlee ranks #6,335 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 36 technology areas.

#6,335
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (52.0/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +282%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6335 · US Corporation #6,335 · 53 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,335/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH European Molecular…
CPC-FOCUS H02G · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +282% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (±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 Greenlee’s 52.0 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 13.8 pts (26%) Velocity 6.0 pts (12%) Breadth 21.2 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ascentage Pharma Group · near

52
American Megatrends · near

52
Greenlee Tools · this assignee

52
Hansgrohe SE · near

52
McCue · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Greenlee's Innovation Score is 52.0/100 (top 11% 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 Greenlee?

Each dot is one of Greenlee’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). Greenlee’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Greenlee's grants concentrate

Greenlee Tools, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 35.8% of grants classified under H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (13 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2021. By volume, Greenlee sits between European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Harsco Technologies LLC.

Greenlee's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Greenlee Tools, Inc. moved from 28 to 25 grants (0.89x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

European Molecula…

53
Foshan Shunde Mid…

53
Fuzhou University

53
Flamel Ireland

53
Gilead Pharmasset

53
Gree Green Refrig…

53
Guangzhou Shiyuan…

53
Harsco

53
Greenlee Tools ◀

53

What this shows Greenlee holds 53 patents at rank #6,332, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Greenlee

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,332 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Greenlee, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines), Greenlee ranks #49 of 985 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

McCue Corporation 52 American Megatrends, Inc. 52 Hansgrohe SE 52 Ascentage Pharma Group Corp Limited 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Ruckus Wireless, Inc. 18.4 avg University OF Southampton 18.4 avg Bally Gaming, Inc. 18.4 avg Cambrios Film Solutons Corporation 18.4 avg

Greenlee's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Greenlee Tools, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	11	20.8%
2020	13	24.5%
2021	4	7.5%
2022	5	9.4%
2023	12	22.6%
2024	8	15.1%

Which technologies does Greenlee Tools, Inc. patent most?

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 19

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 11

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 11

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 5

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 3

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 3

C12Y - Enzymes 3

C07K - Peptides 3

Top 15 of 36 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

Greenlee Tools, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Greenlee Tools, Inc.'s lead technology class is H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines), 35.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02G
Ranked #6,335 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Greenlee Tools, Inc. against European Molecular Biology Laboratory, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.0/100 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

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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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