Where does Master Lock Company LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Master Lock Company LLC ranks #3,931 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 Master Lock Company LLC hold?

Master Lock Company LLC holds 92 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Master Lock Company LLC's Innovation Score?

Master Lock Company LLC 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%).

Is Master Lock Company LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Master Lock Company LLC's recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Master Lock Company LLC's patents?

Master Lock Company LLC's patents average 11.7 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 Master Lock Company 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

Master Lock Company LLC

Q: What technology areas does Master Lock Company LLC focus on?

Master Lock Company LLC's top technology area is 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) with 32 patents, ranking #62 of 1,508 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 92 granted patents across 29 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: 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 FO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Master ranks #3,931 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 92 patents across 29 technology areas.

#3,931
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.7/100): 11.7
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3931 · US Corporation #3,931 · 92 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 92 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,931/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lindsay
CPC-FOCUS G07C · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lindsay 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 Master’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 15.7 pts (34%) Velocity 5.0 pts (11%) Breadth 19.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bell Textron · near

47
C/HCA · near

47
Master Lock · this assignee

47
Senvion SE · near

47
Universitat… · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Master'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 Master?

Each dot is one of Master’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). Master’s own 11.7 claims/patent is at or below the 17.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Master's grants concentrate

Master Lock Company LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 34.8% of grants classified under 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 FO). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (30 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2021. By volume, Master sits between Lippert Components, Inc. and Nautilus, Inc..

Master's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Master Lock Company LLC moved from 20 to 15 grants (0.75x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Lippert Components

92
Lindsay

92
Liqid

92
Mainstream Engine…

92
Microvision

92
Mongodb

92
Morphotrust USA

92
Nautilus

92
Master Lock ◀

92

What this shows Master holds 92 patents at rank #3,931, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Master

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,931 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07C (Time OR Attendance Registers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Master, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G07C (Time OR Attendance Registers), Master ranks #62 of 1,508 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Bell Textron Inc. 47 Senvion SE 47 C/HCA, Inc. 47 Universitat AUTÓNOMA DE Barcelona 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.7 here).

Streamlight, Inc. 11.7 avg Dow Technology Investments LLC 11.7 avg Primax Electronics Ltd. 11.7 avg International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC 11.7 avg

Master'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Master Lock Company LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	32.6%
2016	8	8.7%
2017	4	4.3%
2018	8	8.7%
2019	10	10.9%
2020	7	7.6%
2021	3	3.3%
2022	5	5.4%
2023	3	3.3%
2024	7	7.6%
2025partial year	7	7.6%

Which technologies does Master Lock Company LLC patent most?

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 32

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 22

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 19

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

F16P - Safety Devices IN GENERAL; ; Safety Devices FOR Presses 6

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

E05G - Safes OR Strong-rooms FOR VALUABLES; Bank Protection DEVICES; Safety Transaction Partitions 4

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 3

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

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

Top 15 of 29 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

Master Lock Company LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Master Lock Company LLC's lead technology class is 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 FO), 34.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07C
Ranked #3,931 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Master Lock Company LLC against Lippert Components, 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

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.