Where does Knox Associates, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Knox Associates, Inc. ranks #11,698 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 Knox Associates, Inc. hold?

Knox Associates, Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Knox Associates, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Knox Associates, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.8 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Knox Associates, Inc. focus on?

Knox Associates, Inc.'s top technology area is E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs) with 14 patents, ranking #73 of 815 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Knox Associates, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Knox Associates, Inc.'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 Knox Associates, Inc.'s patents?

Knox Associates, Inc.'s patents average 15.0 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 Knox Associates, Inc. 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

Knox Associates, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 15 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: E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Knox ranks #11,698 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 15 technology areas.

#11,698
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.8/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11698 · US Corporation #11,698 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,698/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kama-Tech (HK)
CPC-FOCUS E05B · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kama-Tech (HK) Limited (±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 Knox’s 40.8 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 11.4 pts (28%) Velocity 6.7 pts (16%) Breadth 13.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dick's Sporting Goods · near

41
Fallbrook Intellectu… · near

41
Knox Associates · this assignee

41
Sanyo Special Steel · near

41
Selig Sealing Products · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Knox's Innovation Score is 40.8/100 (top 35% 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 Knox?

Each dot is one of Knox’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). Knox’s own 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Knox's grants concentrate

Knox Associates, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 53.8% of grants classified under E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Knox sits between Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG and Lafarge.

Knox's three-year grant acceleration

Knox Associates, Inc. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Krauss-maffei Weg…

26
KS Kolbenschmidt

26
Kuang-chi Institu…

26
Kama-tech (HK)

26
Konnectronix

26
Kraton

26
L3vel

26
Lafarge

26
Knox Associates ◀

26

What this shows Knox holds 26 patents at rank #11,704, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Knox

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,704 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E05B (Locks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Knox, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E05B (Locks), Knox ranks #73 of 815 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Selig Sealing Products, Inc. 41 Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd. 41 Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. 41 Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC 41

Knox's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% 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.

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Knox Associates, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.7%
2016	2	7.7%
2017	2	7.7%
2019	2	7.7%
2020	2	7.7%
2021	3	11.5%
2022	1	3.8%
2023	4	15.4%
2024	2	7.7%
2025partial year	6	23.1%

Which technologies does Knox Associates, Inc. patent most?

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 14

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 11

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 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 4

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 3

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

E03B - Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

Top 15 of 15 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

Knox Associates, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Knox Associates, Inc.'s lead technology class is E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs), 53.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E05B
Ranked #11,698 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Knox Associates, Inc. against Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.8/100 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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