Where does Manufacturing Systems Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Manufacturing Systems Limited ranks #36,360 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 Manufacturing Systems Limited hold?

Manufacturing Systems Limited holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Manufacturing Systems Limited's Innovation Score?

Manufacturing Systems Limited has an Innovation Score of 46.7 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Manufacturing Systems Limited focus on?

Manufacturing Systems Limited's top technology area is B30B (Presses IN General) with 5 patents, ranking #48 of 360 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Manufacturing Systems Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Manufacturing Systems Limited's recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Manufacturing Systems Limited's patents?

Manufacturing Systems Limited's patents average 41.6 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 Manufacturing Systems Limited 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

Manufacturing Systems Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B30B (Presses IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Manufacturing ranks #36,360 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 10 technology areas.

#36,360
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.7/100): 41.6
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R36360 · Foreign Corporation #36,360 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #36,360/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Man-D-Tec
CPC-FOCUS B30B · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 41.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Man-D-Tec, 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 Manufacturing’s 46.7 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 7.2 pts (15%) Velocity 13.3 pts (28%) Breadth 11.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Manufacturing Systems · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Manufacturing's Innovation Score is 46.7/100 (top 20% 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 Manufacturing?

Each dot is one of Manufacturing’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). Manufacturing’s own 41.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Manufacturing's grants concentrate

Manufacturing Systems Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under B30B (Presses IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Manufacturing sits between Man-D-Tec, Inc. and Marietta Corporation.

Manufacturing's three-year grant acceleration

Manufacturing Systems Limited shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

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What this shows Manufacturing holds 7 patents at rank #36,450, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Manufacturing

By rank, the assignees closest to #36,450 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B30B (Presses IN General)

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

Manufacturing's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Manufacturing Systems Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	14.3%
2016	1	14.3%
2017	1	14.3%
2018	1	14.3%
2020	1	14.3%
2024	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Manufacturing Systems Limited patent most?

B30B - Presses IN General 5

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 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Manufacturing Systems Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Manufacturing Systems Limited's lead technology class is B30B (Presses IN General), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B30B
Ranked #36,360 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Manufacturing Systems Limited against Man-D-Tec, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.7/100 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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