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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ideal Industries, Inc. ranks #2,968 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 Ideal Industries, Inc. hold?

Ideal Industries, Inc. holds 128 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 47 technology areas.

What is Ideal Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ideal Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.8 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Ideal Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -68% 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 Ideal Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Ideal Industries, Inc.'s patents average 8.4 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 Ideal 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

Ideal Industries, Inc.

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

Ideal Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 31 patents, ranking #111 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 47 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 128 granted patents across 47 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ideal ranks #2,968 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 128 patents across 47 technology areas.

#2,968
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.8/100): 8.4
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2968 · US Corporation #2,968 · 128 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 128 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,968/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Evolution Engineering
CPC-WIDE H01R · 47 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Evolution Engineering 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 Ideal’s 49.8 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 16.8 pts (34%) Velocity 3.7 pts (7%) Breadth 24.2 pts (49%) Claim depth 5.0 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Broetje-Automation · near

50
Ideal Industries · this assignee

50
Industry-Academic… · near

50
Mayekawa MFG · near

50
Shenzhen Institutes… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ideal's Innovation Score is 49.8/100 (top 14% 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 Ideal?

Each dot is one of Ideal’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). Ideal’s own 8.4 claims/patent is at or below the 12.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ideal's grants concentrate

Ideal Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 24.2% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (26 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2022. By volume, Ideal sits between Evolution Engineering Inc. and Microtech Knives, Inc..

Ideal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ideal Industries, Inc. moved from 27 to 15 grants (0.56x 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 #2,558. See the growth leaderboard.

Evolution Enginee…

128
GAS Technology In…

128
Hitachi Zosen

128
Home BOX Office

128
Ichikoh Industries

128
K&N Engineering

128
Luminar

128
Microtech Knives

128
Ideal Industries ◀

128

What this shows Ideal holds 128 patents at rank #2,967, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ideal

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,967 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ideal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Ideal ranks #111 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Mayekawa MFG. Co., Ltd. 50 Shenzhen Institutes OF Advanced Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences 50 Broetje-Automation GmbH 50 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Dankook University 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.4 here).

Jiangnan University 8.4 avg Zhejiang University 8.4 avg Kabo Tool Company 8.4 avg Zhejiang LAB 8.4 avg

Ideal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Ideal Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	26	20.3%
2016	23	18.0%
2017	17	13.3%
2018	17	13.3%
2019	12	9.4%
2020	10	7.8%
2021	5	3.9%
2022	4	3.1%
2023	5	3.9%
2024	6	4.7%
2025partial year	3	2.3%

Which technologies does Ideal Industries, Inc. patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 31

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 12

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 9

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 5

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 3

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 3

Top 15 of 47 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

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

Ideal Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 24.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #2,968 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ideal Industries, Inc. against Evolution Engineering Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.8/100 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.

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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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