Where does Irwin Industrial Tool Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Irwin Industrial Tool Company ranks #4,722 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 Irwin Industrial Tool Company hold?

Irwin Industrial Tool Company holds 74 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Irwin Industrial Tool Company's Innovation Score?

Irwin Industrial Tool Company has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Irwin Industrial Tool Company focus on?

Irwin Industrial Tool Company's top technology area is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification) with 24 patents, ranking #492 of 9,657 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Irwin Industrial Tool Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Irwin Industrial Tool Company's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Irwin Industrial Tool Company's patents?

Irwin Industrial Tool Company's patents average 14.2 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 Irwin Industrial Tool Company 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

Irwin Industrial Tool Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 74 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Irwin ranks #4,722 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 74 patents across 26 technology areas.

#4,722
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4722 · US Corporation #4,722 · 74 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 74 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,722/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hefei Hualing
CPC-FOCUS Y10T · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hefei Hualing Co., 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 Irwin’s 41.5 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 14.9 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 18.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DigiCert · near

41
Franka Emika · near

41
Irwin Industrial Tool · this assignee

41
Oklahoma Medical… · near

41
Smiths Detection · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Irwin's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Irwin?

Each dot is one of Irwin’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). Irwin’s own 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Irwin's grants concentrate

Irwin Industrial Tool Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 32.4% of grants classified under Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (24 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Irwin sits between Hefei Hualing Co., Ltd. and Luigi Lavazza S.p.A..

Hefei Hualing

74
Huntsman Petroche…

74
Imflux

74
Innate Pharma

74
Johnson Matthey

74
Kaohsiung Medical…

74
Keystone Retainin…

74
Luigi Lavazza S p…

74
Irwin Industrial… ◀

74

What this shows Irwin holds 74 patents at rank #4,722, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Irwin

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,722 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Irwin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), Irwin ranks #492 of 9,657 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

DigiCert, Inc. 41 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation 41 Smiths Detection Inc. 41 Franka Emika GmbH 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Beken Corporation 14.2 avg Atieva, Inc. 14.2 avg Furuno Electric Company Limited 14.2 avg Dow Silicones Corporation 14.2 avg

Irwin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Irwin Industrial Tool Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	32.4%
2016	18	24.3%
2017	15	20.3%
2018	13	17.6%
2019	3	4.1%
2020	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Irwin Industrial Tool Company patent most?

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 24

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 18

B23B - TURNING; Boring 13

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 4

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 3

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 3

B27B - Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor 2

B28D - Working Stone OR Stone-like Materials 2

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 2

B44D - Painting OR Artistic Drawing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preserving PAINTINGS; Surface Treatment TO Obtain Special Artistic Surface Effects OR Finishes 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 1

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 1

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

Top 15 of 26 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

Irwin Industrial Tool Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Irwin Industrial Tool Company's lead technology class is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), 32.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y10T
Ranked #4,722 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Irwin Industrial Tool Company against Hefei Hualing Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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