Where does Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd. ranks #22,814 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 Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd. hold?

Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd. 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%).

Is Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +167% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd.'s patents?

Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd.'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 Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) 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

Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd. focus on?

Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd.'s top technology area is F41A (FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F41A (FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Israel ranks #22,814 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 9 technology areas.

#22,814
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +167%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22814 · Foreign Corporation #22,814 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,814/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Ibotta
CPC-NARROW F41A · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +167% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ibotta, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Israel Weapon Indust… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Israel'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.

Where Israel's grants concentrate

Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under F41A (FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Israel sits between Intrabio Ltd. and Ibotta, Inc..

Intrabio

12
ISC

12
Ishifuku Metal In…

12
Isoclima S P A

12
Isi

12
ITM Power (Resear…

12
Iwasaki Electric

12
Ibotta

12
Israel Weapon Ind… ◀

12

What this shows Israel holds 12 patents at rank #22,772, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Israel

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,772 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO BOTH Smallarms A…)

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

Israel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	8.3%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	2	16.7%
2024	2	16.7%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Israel Weapon Industries (i.w.i) Ltd. patent most?

F41A - FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE 10

F41G - WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING 3

F41C - SMALLARMS, e.g. PISTOLS, RIFLES ; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR 2

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 1

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 1

G06N - COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 1

F41J - TARGETS; TARGET RANGES; BULLET CATCHERS 1

F41H - ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL 1

A41D - OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,814

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.5 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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