Where does Magna Closures Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Magna Closures Inc. ranks #1,940 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 Magna Closures Inc. hold?

Magna Closures Inc. holds 207 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 66 technology areas.

What is Magna Closures Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Magna Closures Inc. has an Innovation Score of 60.7 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Magna Closures Inc. focus on?

Magna Closures Inc.'s top technology area is E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs) with 108 patents, ranking #4 of 815 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 66 CPC subclasses total.

Is Magna Closures Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Magna Closures Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +60% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Magna Closures Inc.'s patents?

Magna Closures Inc.'s patents average 17.9 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 Magna Closures 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 Foreign Corporation

Magna Closures Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 207 granted patents across 66 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, Magna ranks #1,940 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 207 patents across 66 technology areas.

#1,940
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.7/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1940 · Foreign Corporation #1,940 · 207 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 207 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,940/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fujitsu General
CPC-WIDE E05B · 66 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fujitsu General 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 Magna’s 60.7 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 18.4 pts (30%) Velocity 6.5 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DeepMind · near

61
British Telecommunic… · near

61
Magna Closures · this assignee

61
Stats · near

61
University Health… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Magna's Innovation Score is 60.7/100 (top 3% 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 Magna?

Each dot is one of Magna’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). Magna’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Magna's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Magna Closures Inc. received 115 grants versus 72 in 2015–2019 (+60% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 31 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 11. Lead class E05B accounts for 52.2% of the portfolio across 66 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Fujitsu General Limited (#1,936) and Swimc LLC (#1,944).

Magna's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Magna Closures Inc. moved from 68 to 66 grants (0.97x 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 #1,268. See the growth leaderboard.

Fujitsu General

207
Fujitsu Optical C…

207
Ideal Industries…

207
Korea Institute O…

207
Safran Nacelles

207
Showa

207
Sintai Optical (S…

207
Swimc

207
Magna Closures ◀

207

What this shows Magna holds 207 patents at rank #1,940, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Magna

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,940 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E05B (Locks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Magna, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E05B (Locks), Magna ranks #4 of 815 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

British Telecommunications public limited company 61 Stats LLC 61 University Health Network 61 DeepMind Technologies Limited 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

THE UAB Research Foundation 17.9 avg Business Objects Software Ltd. 17.9 avg Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc. 17.9 avg Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd. 17.9 avg

Magna's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Magna Closures Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	5.3%
2016	14	6.8%
2017	12	5.8%
2018	16	7.7%
2019	19	9.2%
2020	23	11.1%
2021	26	12.6%
2022	31	15.0%
2023	14	6.8%
2024	21	10.1%
2025partial year	20	9.7%

Which technologies does Magna Closures Inc. patent most?

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 108

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 97

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 81

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 59

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 34

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 22

F16H - Gearing 15

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 13

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 12

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 12

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

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 8

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 7

Top 15 of 66 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

Magna Closures Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Magna Closures Inc.'s lead technology class is E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs), 52.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E05B
Ranked #1,940 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Magna Closures Inc. against Fujitsu General Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.7/100 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.

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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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