Where does Iscar, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Iscar, Ltd. ranks #2,036 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 Iscar, Ltd. hold?

Iscar, Ltd. holds 195 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Iscar, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Iscar, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 55.4 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Iscar, Ltd. focus on?

Iscar, Ltd.'s top technology area is B23B (TURNING; Boring) with 136 patents, ranking #5 of 490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Iscar, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Iscar, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -27% 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 Iscar, Ltd.'s patents?

Iscar, Ltd.'s patents average 24.9 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 Iscar, Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

Iscar, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 195 granted patents across 20 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: B23B (TURNING; Boring).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Iscar ranks #2,036 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 195 patents across 20 technology areas.

#2,036
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.4/100): 24.9
avg claims per patent: -27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2036 · Foreign Corporation #2,036 · 195 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 195 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,036/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH China Mobile…
CPC-FOCUS B23B · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: China Mobile Communications Group 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 Iscar’s 55.4 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 18.2 pts (33%) Velocity 6.4 pts (12%) Breadth 15.8 pts (29%) Claim depth 14.9 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The Lubrizol · near

55
Brooks Automation · near

55
Commvault Systems · near

55
Iscar · this assignee

55
National Chiao Tung… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Iscar's Innovation Score is 55.4/100 (top 7% 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 Iscar?

Each dot is one of Iscar’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). Iscar’s own 24.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Iscar's grants concentrate

Iscar, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 69.7% of grants classified under B23B (TURNING; Boring). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (30 grants) versus a trough of 13 in 2017. By volume, Iscar sits between Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. and Duksan Neolux Co., Ltd.

Iscar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Iscar, Ltd. moved from 52 to 50 grants (0.96x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,291. See the growth leaderboard.

Specialized Bicyc…

196
True Velocity IP…

196
China Mobile Comm…

195
Coway

195
Med-el Elektromed…

195
Nordic Semiconduc…

195
Versum Materials…

195
Iscar ◀

195
Duksan Neolux

194

What this shows Iscar holds 195 patents at rank #2,036, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Iscar

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,036 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23B (Turning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Iscar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B23B (Turning), Iscar ranks #5 of 490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Brooks Automation GmbH 55 National Chiao Tung University 55 Commvault Systems, Inc. 55 The Lubrizol Corporation 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.9 here).

Preferred Networks, Inc. 24.9 avg Mojo Mobility Inc. 24.9 avg Dreamworks Animation LLC 24.8 avg Cavium, LLC. 24.8 avg

Iscar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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.

View data table

Iscar, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	15.4%
2016	22	11.3%
2017	13	6.7%
2018	23	11.8%
2019	22	11.3%
2020	15	7.7%
2021	15	7.7%
2022	18	9.2%
2023	16	8.2%
2024	16	8.2%
2025partial year	5	2.6%

Which technologies does Iscar, Ltd. patent most?

B23B - TURNING; Boring 136

B23C - Milling 92

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 69

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

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 7

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 5

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 5

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 4

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

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 3

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 2

B23G - Thread CUTTING; Working OF Screws, Bolt Heads, OR Nuts, IN Conjunction Therewith 1

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Iscar, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Iscar, Ltd.'s lead technology class is B23B (TURNING; Boring), 69.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23B
Ranked #2,036 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Iscar, Ltd. against Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.4/100 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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