Where does Inman Mills rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Inman Mills ranks #35,864 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 Inman Mills hold?

Inman Mills holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2023, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Inman Mills's Innovation Score?

Inman Mills has an Innovation Score of 42.7 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Inman Mills focus on?

Inman Mills's top technology area is D10B (Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles) with 5 patents, ranking #101 of 586 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Inman Mills's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Inman Mills's recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Inman Mills's patents?

Inman Mills's patents average 18.3 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 Inman Mills 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

Inman Mills

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2023. 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: D10B (Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Inman ranks #35,864 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 10 technology areas.

#35,864
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.7/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R35864 · US Corporation #35,864 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #35,864/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Information…
CPC-FOCUS D10B · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Information Planning & Management Service 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 Inman’s 42.7 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 7.2 pts (17%) Velocity 13.3 pts (31%) Breadth 11.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Inman Mills · this assignee

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What this shows Inman's Innovation Score is 42.7/100 (top 30% 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 Inman?

Each dot is one of Inman’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). Inman’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Inman's grants concentrate

Inman Mills is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under D10B (Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Inman sits between Information Planning & Management Service Inc. and Innovasea Systems, Inc..

Inman's three-year grant acceleration

Inman Mills shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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 Inman holds 7 patents at rank #35,925, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Inman

By rank, the assignees closest to #35,925 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D10B (Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D)

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

Inman's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Inman Mills patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	14.3%
2020	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%
2022	2	28.6%
2023	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Inman Mills patent most?

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 5

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 5

D02G - Crimping OR Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, OR YARNS; Yarns OR Threads 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 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

D04B - Knitting 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

D01H - Spinning OR Twisting 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Inman Mills's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Inman Mills's lead technology class is D10B (Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D10B
Ranked #35,864 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Inman Mills against Information Planning & Management Service Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.7/100 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.