Where does Lord Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lord Corporation ranks #3,738 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 Lord Corporation hold?

Lord Corporation holds 97 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 69 technology areas.

What is Lord Corporation's Innovation Score?

Lord Corporation has an Innovation Score of 56.5 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lord Corporation focus on?

Lord Corporation's top technology area is F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration) with 38 patents, ranking #25 of 892 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 69 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lord Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lord Corporation's recent grant velocity is -20% 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 Lord Corporation's patents?

Lord Corporation's patents average 21.3 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 Lord 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

Lord Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 97 granted patents across 69 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: F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lord ranks #3,738 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 97 patents across 69 technology areas.

#3,738
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.5/100): 21.3
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3738 · US Corporation #3,738 · 97 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 97 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,738/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Harbor Freight…
CPC-WIDE F16F · 69 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Harbor Freight Tools USA, 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.

How Lord’s 56.5 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 15.8 pts (28%) Velocity 2.9 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 12.8 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Flextronics AP · near

56
Klein Tools · near

56
Lord · this assignee

56
Nexans · near

56
Veoneer US · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lord's Innovation Score is 56.5/100 (top 6% 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 Lord?

Each dot is one of Lord’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). Lord’s own 21.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Lord's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lord Corporation received 41 grants versus 51 in 2015–2019 (-20% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 3. Lead class F16F accounts for 39.2% of the portfolio across 69 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc. (#3,733) and Niantic, Inc. (#3,741).

Lord's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lord Corporation moved from 42 to 18 grants (0.43x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Harbor Freight To…

97
Immunolight

97
Koninklijke Phili…

97
Korea Institute o…

97
Mobile Technology

97
Nuvasive Speciali…

97
New York Air Brake

97
Niantic

97
Lord ◀

97

What this shows Lord holds 97 patents at rank #3,737, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lord

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,737 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16F (Springs)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lord, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16F (Springs), Lord ranks #25 of 892 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Klein Tools, Inc. 56 Veoneer US LLC 56 Nexans 56 Flextronics AP, LLC 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.3 here).

Westport Power Inc. 21.3 avg AOl 21.3 avg STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd 21.3 avg Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG 21.3 avg

Lord's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Lord Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	8.2%
2016	6	6.2%
2017	8	8.2%
2018	10	10.3%
2019	19	19.6%
2020	12	12.4%
2021	11	11.3%
2022	6	6.2%
2023	9	9.3%
2024	3	3.1%
2025partial year	5	5.2%

Which technologies does Lord Corporation patent most?

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 38

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 35

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 21

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 9

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 9

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 8

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 8

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 7

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 6

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 5

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 5

Top 15 of 69 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

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

Lord Corporation's lead technology class is F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration), 39.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16F
Ranked #3,738 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lord Corporation against Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.5/100 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.