Where does McHale Engineering rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), McHale Engineering ranks #36,416 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 McHale Engineering hold?

McHale Engineering holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is McHale Engineering's Innovation Score?

McHale Engineering has an Innovation Score of 28.3 out of 100 (27th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is McHale Engineering's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

McHale Engineering's recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for McHale Engineering's patents?

McHale Engineering's patents average 13.7 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 McHale Engineering 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

McHale Engineering

Q: What technology areas does McHale Engineering focus on?

McHale Engineering's top technology area is A01F (Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce) with 4 patents, ranking #38 of 90 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: A01F (Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mchale ranks #36,416 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 5 technology areas.

#36,416
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 27th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.3/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R36416 · Foreign Corporation #36,416 · 7 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #36,416/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Maxion Wheels Holding
CPC-NARROW A01F · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Maxion Wheels Holding GmbH (±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 Mchale’s 28.3 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 7.2 pts (25%) Velocity 5.0 pts (18%) Breadth 7.9 pts (28%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
McHale Engineering · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mchale's Innovation Score is 28.3/100 (27th 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 Mchale?

Each dot is one of Mchale’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). Mchale’s own 13.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mchale's grants concentrate

McHale Engineering is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under A01F (Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Mchale sits between Maxion Wheels Holding GmbH and MedRhythms, Inc..

Mchale's three-year grant acceleration

McHale Engineering shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Maxion Wheels Hol…

7
Maxx Media Group

7
Mayborn (UK)

7
Mayne Pharma

7
Mcnaughton Incorp…

7
Med-life Discover…

7
Medintech

7
Medrhythms

7
Mchale Engineering ◀

7

What this shows McHale holds 7 patents at rank #36,478, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near McHale

By rank, the assignees closest to #36,478 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01F (Processing OF Harvested Produce)

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

Mchale's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 27th percentile higher than 27% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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McHale Engineering patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	14.3%
2020	2	28.6%
2021	1	14.3%
2022	2	28.6%
2024	1	14.3%

Which technologies does McHale Engineering patent most?

A01F - Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce 4

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 1

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

McHale Engineering's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

McHale Engineering's lead technology class is A01F (Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01F
Ranked #36,416 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare McHale Engineering against Maxion Wheels Holding GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.3/100 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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