Where does Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company ranks #26,637 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 Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company hold?

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company's Innovation Score?

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company has an Innovation Score of 29.8 out of 100 (32nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company's patents?

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company's patents average 9.3 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 Jim Melhart Piano and Organ 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

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company

Q: What technology areas does Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company focus on?

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company's top technology area is G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 8 patents, ranking #11 of 62 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise P).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Jim ranks #26,637 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 4 technology areas.

#26,637
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.8/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26637 · US Corporation #26,637 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,637/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jeneil Biosurfactant
CPC-NARROW G10D · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jeneil Biosurfactant Company, LLC (±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 Jim’s 29.8 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 8.3 pts (28%) Velocity 8.9 pts (30%) Breadth 7.1 pts (24%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Jim Melhart Piano… · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Jim's Innovation Score is 29.8/100 (32nd percentile 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 Jim?

Each dot is one of Jim’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). Jim’s own 9.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Jim's grants concentrate

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise P). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Jim sits between Jeneil Biosurfactant Company, LLC and KA Imaging Inc..

Jim's three-year grant acceleration

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Jeneil Biosurfact…

10
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10
Jerusalem College…

10
Jiangsu Barep Sma…

10
Jing Si Pureland

10
K+S Aktiengesells…

10
K-innovation

10
KA Imaging

10
Jim Melhart Piano… ◀

10

What this shows Jim holds 10 patents at rank #26,638, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Jim

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,638 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10D (Stringed Musical Instruments)

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

Jim's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	10.0%
2017	1	10.0%
2018	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2021	1	10.0%
2022	2	20.0%
2023	1	10.0%
2024	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company patent most?

G10D - Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 2

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 2

Top 4 of 4 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

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company's lead technology class is G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise P), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10D
Ranked #26,637 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Jim Melhart Piano and Organ Company against Jeneil Biosurfactant Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.8/100 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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