Where does Imperial Blades rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Imperial Blades ranks #40,873 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 Imperial Blades hold?

Imperial Blades holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Imperial Blades's Innovation Score?

Imperial Blades has an Innovation Score of 44.0 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Imperial Blades's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Imperial Blades.

What does claim depth mean for Imperial Blades's patents?

Imperial Blades's patents average 18.5 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 Imperial Blades 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

Imperial Blades

Q: What technology areas does Imperial Blades focus on?

Imperial Blades's top technology area is B23D (PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 5 patents, ranking #52 of 307 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B23D (PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Imperial ranks #40,873 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 3 technology areas.

#40,873
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (44.0/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R40873 · US Corporation #40,873 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #40,873/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Immerz
CPC-NARROW B23D · 3 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Immerz, 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 Imperial’s 44.0 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 6.7 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (46%) Breadth 6.1 pts (14%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Imperial Blades · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Imperial's Innovation Score is 44.0/100 (top 27% 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 Imperial?

Each dot is one of Imperial’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). Imperial’s own 18.5 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.

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

Where Imperial's grants concentrate

Imperial Blades is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under B23D (PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Imperial sits between Immerz, Inc. and IMV Corporation.

Imperial's three-year grant acceleration

Imperial Blades shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

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What this shows Imperial holds 6 patents at rank #40,843, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Imperial

By rank, the assignees closest to #40,843 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23D (Planing)

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

Imperial's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Imperial Blades patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	16.7%
2022	1	16.7%
2023	2	33.3%
2024	1	16.7%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Imperial Blades patent most?

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 2

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Imperial Blades's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Imperial Blades's lead technology class is B23D (PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23D
Ranked #40,873 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Imperial Blades against Immerz, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.0/100 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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