Where does Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. ranks #7,021 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 Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. hold?

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.1 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%).

What technology areas does Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. focus on?

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 32 patents, ranking #145 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +39% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.'s patents?

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, 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

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 24 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Indiana ranks #7,021 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 24 technology areas.

#7,021
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.1/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7021 · US Corporation #7,021 · 47 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #7,021/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hill-Rom Services PTE
CPC-FOCUS B60R · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hill-Rom Services PTE. Ltd. (±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 Indiana’s 50.1 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 13.4 pts (27%) Velocity 8.1 pts (16%) Breadth 17.3 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amdocs Development · near

50
AMO Groningen B V · near

50
Datalogic USA · near

50
Indiana Mills &… · this assignee

50
Universal Entertainm… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Indiana's Innovation Score is 50.1/100 (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 Indiana?

Each dot is one of Indiana’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). Indiana’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Indiana's grants concentrate

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 68.1% of grants classified under B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Indiana sits between Hill-Rom Services PTE. Ltd. and ImmunityBio, Inc..

Indiana's three-year grant acceleration

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Hill-rom Services…

47
Hitachi Consumer

47
Hyundai Wia

47
Inari Agriculture…

47
Inside Secure

47
Intelligent Desig…

47
Iteris

47
Immunitybio

47
Indiana Mills & M… ◀

47

What this shows Indiana holds 47 patents at rank #7,020, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Indiana

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,020 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Indiana, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), Indiana ranks #145 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Datalogic USA, Inc. 50 AMO Groningen B.V. 50 Universal Entertainment Corporation 50 Amdocs Development Limited 50

Indiana'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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Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.1%
2016	4	8.5%
2017	2	4.3%
2018	5	10.6%
2019	6	12.8%
2020	3	6.4%
2021	5	10.6%
2022	4	8.5%
2023	5	10.6%
2024	8	17.0%
2025partial year	4	8.5%

Which technologies does Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 32

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 7

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 6

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 4

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 4

A47D - Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children 3

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 1

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 1

Top 15 of 24 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

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 68.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #7,021 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. against Hill-Rom Services PTE. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.1/100 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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