Where does Manchester Copper Products, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Manchester Copper Products, LLC ranks #32,420 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 Manchester Copper Products, LLC hold?

Manchester Copper Products, LLC holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Manchester Copper Products, LLC's Innovation Score?

Manchester Copper Products, LLC has an Innovation Score of 32.3 out of 100 (41st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Manchester Copper Products, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Manchester Copper Products, LLC's recent grant velocity is -67% 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 Manchester Copper Products, LLC's patents?

Manchester Copper Products, LLC's patents average 18.3 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 Manchester Copper Products, LLC 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

Manchester Copper Products, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Manchester Copper Products, LLC focus on?

Manchester Copper Products, LLC's top technology area is B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material) with 8 patents, ranking #19 of 268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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: B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially RE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Manchester ranks #32,420 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 4 technology areas.

#32,420
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.3/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R32420 · US Corporation #32,420 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #32,420/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Magnasphere
CPC-NARROW B21C · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Magnasphere Corporation (±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 Manchester’s 32.3 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 7.6 pts (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (21%) Breadth 7.1 pts (22%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Manchester Copper… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Manchester's Innovation Score is 32.3/100 (41st percentile 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 Manchester?

Each dot is one of Manchester’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). Manchester’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Manchester's grants concentrate

Manchester Copper Products, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially RE). By volume, Manchester sits between Magnasphere Corporation and Marlabs Incorporated.

Manchester's three-year grant acceleration

Manchester Copper Products, LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Magnasphere

8
Magnum Shielding

8
Magtera

8
Maidbot

8
Maranon

8
Marine Acquisitio…

8
Marketing Impact

8
Marlabs Incorpora…

8
Manchester Copper… ◀

8

What this shows Manchester holds 8 patents at rank #32,486, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Manchester

By rank, the assignees closest to #32,486 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets)

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

Manchester's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 41st percentile higher than 41% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Manchester Copper Products, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	25.0%
2017	2	25.0%
2019	2	25.0%
2022	2	25.0%

Which technologies does Manchester Copper Products, LLC patent most?

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 8

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 7

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 7

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Manchester Copper Products, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Manchester Copper Products, LLC's lead technology class is B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially RE), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21C
Ranked #32,420 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Manchester Copper Products, LLC against Magnasphere Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.3/100 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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