Where does Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc ranks #22,807 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc hold?

Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc's Innovation Score?

Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc has an Innovation Score of 28.7 out of 100 (top 72% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc's patents?

Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc's patents average 10.0 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 Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc 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

Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc

Q: What technology areas does Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc focus on?

Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc's top technology area is E01H (STREET CLEANING; CLEANING OF PERMANENT WAYS; CLEANING BEACHES; DISPERSING ; OR PREVENTING; FOG IN GENERAL ; CLEANING STREET OR RAILWAY FURNITURE OR TUNNEL WALLS) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: E01H (STREET CLEANING; CLEANING OF PERMANENT WAYS; CLEANING BEACHES; DISPERSING ; OR PREVENTING; FOG IN GENERAL ; CLEANING STREET OR RAILWAY FURNITURE OR TUNNEL WALLS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ironhawk ranks #22,807 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 7 technology areas.

#22,807
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 72%
by Innovation Score (28.7/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22807 · US Corporation #22,807 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,807/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Intricon
CPC-NARROW E01H · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intricon Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ironhawk Industrial… · this assignee

29
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Ironhawk's Innovation Score is 28.7/100 (top 72% 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.

Where Ironhawk's grants concentrate

Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under E01H (STREET CLEANING; CLEANING OF PERMANENT WAYS; CLEANING BEACHES; DISPERSING ; OR PREVENTING; FOG IN GENERAL ; CLEANING STREET OR RAILWAY FURNITURE OR TUNNEL WALLS). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ironhawk sits between Intricon Corporation and JACK Kennedy Metal Products & Buildings, Inc..

Intricon

12
Ioniqa B V

12
Iowa Corn Promoti…

12
Ipgreat Incorpora…

12
Isonas

12
Istituto Superior…

12
J & R Household

12
JACK Kennedy Meta…

12
Ironhawk Industri… ◀

12

What this shows Ironhawk holds 12 patents at rank #22,809, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ironhawk

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,809 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E01H (Street Cleaning)

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

Ironhawk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 Top 72% higher than 28% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	1	8.3%
2019	2	16.7%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	3	25.0%
2023	3	25.0%
2024	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc patent most?

E01H - STREET CLEANING; CLEANING OF PERMANENT WAYS; CLEANING BEACHES; DISPERSING ; OR PREVENTING; FOG IN GENERAL ; CLEANING STREET OR RAILWAY FURNITURE OR TUNNEL WALLS 4

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

G01M - TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

E21C - MINING OR QUARRYING 1

E01C - CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR 1

B28D - WORKING STONE OR STONE-LIKE MATERIALS 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,807

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

28.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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