Where does Matco Tools Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Matco Tools Corporation ranks #20,055 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 Matco Tools Corporation hold?

Matco Tools Corporation holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Matco Tools Corporation's Innovation Score?

Matco Tools Corporation has an Innovation Score of 33.0 out of 100 (43rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Matco Tools Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Matco Tools Corporation's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Matco Tools Corporation's patents?

Matco Tools Corporation's patents average 10.6 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 Matco Tools Corporation 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

Matco Tools Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Matco Tools Corporation focus on?

Matco Tools Corporation's top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 4 patents, ranking #2,874 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Matco ranks #20,055 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 9 technology areas.

#20,055
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (33.0/100): 10.6
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20055 · US Corporation #20,055 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,055/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Marel Meat B V
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Marel Meat B.V. (±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 Matco’s 33.0 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 (28%) Velocity 6.7 pts (20%) Breadth 10.6 pts (32%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Matco Tools · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Matco's Innovation Score is 33.0/100 (43rd 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 Matco?

Each dot is one of Matco’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). Matco’s own 10.6 claims/patent is at or below the 12.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Matco's grants concentrate

Matco Tools Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 28.6% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Matco sits between Marel Meat B.V. and Maxton Engineering Ltd..

Matco's three-year grant acceleration

Matco Tools Corporation shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Marel Meat B V

14
Mariella Labels OY

14
Marine Town

14
Martur Italy S R L

14
Mathys Bettlach

14
Maxell Izumi

14
Maxon Internation…

14
Maxton Engineering

14
Matco Tools ◀

14

What this shows Matco holds 14 patents at rank #20,040, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Matco

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,040 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Matco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Matco Tools Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	7.1%
2018	1	7.1%
2019	2	14.3%
2020	2	14.3%
2021	1	7.1%
2022	2	14.3%
2023	1	7.1%
2024	2	14.3%
2025partial year	2	14.3%

Which technologies does Matco Tools Corporation patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

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 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 2

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 1

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 1

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Matco Tools Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Matco Tools Corporation's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 28.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #20,055 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Matco Tools Corporation against Marel Meat B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.0/100 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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