Where does Marine Town Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Marine Town Inc. ranks #20,048 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 Marine Town Inc. hold?

Marine Town Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Marine Town Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Marine Town Inc. has an Innovation Score of 22.1 out of 100 (10th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Marine Town Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Marine Town Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Marine Town Inc.'s patents?

Marine Town Inc.'s patents average 1.7 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 Marine Town 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

Marine Town Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Marine Town Inc. focus on?

Marine Town Inc.'s top technology area is F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing) with 1 patents, ranking #1,072 of 2,095 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Marine ranks #20,048 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 2 technology areas.

#20,048
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 10th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.1/100): 1.7
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20048 · Foreign Corporation #20,048 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,048/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Magnum Magnetics
CPC-NARROW F16B · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Magnum Magnetics 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 Marine’s 22.1 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 9.4 pts (43%) Velocity 6.7 pts (30%) Breadth 5.0 pts (23%) Claim depth 1.0 pts (5%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Marine Town · this assignee

22
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Marine's Innovation Score is 22.1/100 (10th 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 Marine?

Each dot is one of Marine’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). Marine’s own 1.7 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Marine's grants concentrate

Marine Town Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 7.1% of grants classified under F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Marine sits between Magnum Magnetics Corporation and Maxell Izumi Co., Ltd..

Marine's three-year grant acceleration

Marine Town Inc. 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.

Magnum Magnetics

14
Mantisvision

14
Marel Meat B V

14
Mariella Labels OY

14
Martur Italy S R L

14
Matco Tools

14
Mathys Bettlach

14
Maxell Izumi

14
Marine Town ◀

14

What this shows Marine holds 14 patents at rank #20,038, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Marine

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,038 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements…)

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

Marine's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 10th percentile higher than 10% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Marine Town Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	14.3%
2016	3	21.4%
2017	4	28.6%
2018	1	7.1%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	1	7.1%
2023	2	14.3%

Which technologies does Marine Town Inc. patent most?

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 2 of 2 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

Marine Town Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Marine Town Inc.'s lead technology class is F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing), 7.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16B
Ranked #20,048 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Marine Town Inc. against Magnum Magnetics Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.1/100 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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