Where does Lincoln Industrial Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lincoln Industrial Corporation ranks #6,358 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 Lincoln Industrial Corporation hold?

Lincoln Industrial Corporation holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Lincoln Industrial Corporation's Innovation Score?

Lincoln Industrial Corporation has an Innovation Score of 44.6 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lincoln Industrial Corporation focus on?

Lincoln Industrial Corporation's top technology area is F16N (Lubricating) with 35 patents, ranking #2 of 193 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lincoln Industrial Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lincoln Industrial Corporation's recent grant velocity is -69% 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 Lincoln Industrial Corporation's patents?

Lincoln Industrial Corporation's patents average 16.0 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 Lincoln Industrial Corporation 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

Lincoln Industrial Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 22 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: F16N (Lubricating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lincoln ranks #6,358 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 22 technology areas.

#6,358
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.6/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -69%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6358 · US Corporation #6,358 · 53 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,358/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kaspersky Lab ZAO
CPC-FOCUS F16N · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -69% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kaspersky Lab, ZAO (±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 Lincoln’s 44.6 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 13.8 pts (31%) Velocity 4.7 pts (11%) Breadth 16.6 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Defond Electech · near

45
Lincoln Industrial · this assignee

45
Mevion Medical Systems · near

45
MorphoTrust USA · near

45
Video Gaming · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lincoln's Innovation Score is 44.6/100 (top 25% 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 Lincoln?

Each dot is one of Lincoln’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). Lincoln’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lincoln's grants concentrate

Lincoln Industrial Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 66% of grants classified under F16N (Lubricating). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (17 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Lincoln sits between Kaspersky Lab, ZAO and Maxlinear Asia Singapore PTE Ltd.

Lincoln's three-year grant acceleration

Lincoln Industrial Corporation shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Kaspersky Lab ZAO

53
Leica Biosystems…

53
LMK

53
Lanzatech

53
Manitou Italia S…

53
Mitsubishi Heavy…

53
Marrone Bio Innov…

53
Maxlinear Asia Si…

53
Lincoln Industrial ◀

53

What this shows Lincoln holds 53 patents at rank #6,357, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lincoln

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,357 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16N (Lubricating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lincoln, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16N (Lubricating), Lincoln ranks #2 of 193 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Mevion Medical Systems, Inc. 45 Defond Electech Co., Ltd. 45 MorphoTrust USA, LLC 45 Video Gaming Technologies, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

L'ORÉAL 16.0 avg Promega Corporation 16.0 avg Dassault Systemes 16.0 avg Oshkosh Corporation 16.0 avg

Lincoln's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% 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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Lincoln Industrial Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	32.1%
2016	6	11.3%
2017	10	18.9%
2018	1	1.9%
2019	5	9.4%
2020	4	7.5%
2021	1	1.9%
2022	3	5.7%
2023	1	1.9%
2024	3	5.7%
2025partial year	2	3.8%

Which technologies does Lincoln Industrial Corporation patent most?

F16N - Lubricating 35

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 5

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 5

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 4

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 4

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 1

B01D - Separation 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

B61K - Auxiliary Equipment Specially Adapted FOR Railways, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

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 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Lincoln Industrial Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lincoln Industrial Corporation's lead technology class is F16N (Lubricating), 66% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16N
Ranked #6,358 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lincoln Industrial Corporation against Kaspersky Lab, ZAO, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.