Where does Lifetime Brands, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lifetime Brands, Inc. ranks #3,158 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 Lifetime Brands, Inc. hold?

Lifetime Brands, Inc. holds 119 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lifetime Brands, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.7 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lifetime Brands, Inc. focus on?

Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 8 patents, ranking #125 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s patents?

Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s patents average 4.5 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 Lifetime Brands, 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

Lifetime Brands, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 119 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lifetime ranks #3,158 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 119 patents across 20 technology areas.

#3,158
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.7/100): 4.5
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3158 · US Corporation #3,158 · 119 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 119 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,158/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Centripetal Networks
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Centripetal Networks, 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 Lifetime’s 38.7 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 16.5 pts (43%) Velocity 3.7 pts (10%) Breadth 15.8 pts (41%) Claim depth 2.7 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cirtec Medical · near

39
Daikin Applied… · near

39
Lifetime Brands · this assignee

39
Osterhout Group · near

39
Tipper Tie · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lifetime's Innovation Score is 38.7/100 (top 40% 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 Lifetime?

Each dot is one of Lifetime’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). Lifetime’s own 4.5 claims/patent is at or below the 11.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Lifetime's grants concentrate

Lifetime Brands, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 6.7% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (22 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Lifetime sits between Centripetal Networks, LLC and Rolls-Royce High Temperature Composites, Inc..

Lifetime's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lifetime Brands, Inc. moved from 45 to 25 grants (0.56x 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 #2,561. See the growth leaderboard.

Centripetal Netwo…

119
Corning Optical C…

119
Driscoll's

119
Icom Incorporated

119
Nippon Steel Chem…

119
Ottobock SE & Kgaa

119
Rinnai

119
Rolls-royce High…

119
Lifetime Brands ◀

119

What this shows Lifetime holds 119 patents at rank #3,158, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lifetime

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,158 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lifetime, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Lifetime ranks #125 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Osterhout Group, Inc. 39 Cirtec Medical Corporation 39 Daikin Applied Americas Inc. 39 Tipper Tie, Inc. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (4.5 here).

Clover MFG. Co., Ltd. 4.5 avg Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. 4.5 avg Fourstar Group Inc. 4.4 avg Wahl Clipper Corporation 4.5 avg

Lifetime's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% 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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Lifetime Brands, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	5.0%
2016	9	7.6%
2017	10	8.4%
2018	12	10.1%
2019	22	18.5%
2020	13	10.9%
2021	10	8.4%
2022	8	6.7%
2023	16	13.4%
2024	1	0.8%
2025partial year	12	10.1%

Which technologies does Lifetime Brands, Inc. patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 8

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 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

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

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 3

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 2

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

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 1

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 1

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 1

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 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

Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 6.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #3,158 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lifetime Brands, Inc. against Centripetal Networks, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.7/100 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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