Where does McMaster-Carr Supply Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), McMaster-Carr Supply Company ranks #11,341 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 McMaster-Carr Supply Company hold?

McMaster-Carr Supply Company holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is McMaster-Carr Supply Company's Innovation Score?

McMaster-Carr Supply Company has an Innovation Score of 40.5 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is McMaster-Carr Supply Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

McMaster-Carr Supply Company's recent grant velocity is +1900% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for McMaster-Carr Supply Company's patents?

McMaster-Carr Supply Company's patents average 4.8 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 McMaster-Carr Supply Company 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

McMaster-Carr Supply Company

Q: What technology areas does McMaster-Carr Supply Company focus on?

McMaster-Carr Supply Company'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 3 patents, ranking #3,377 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Mcmaster-carr ranks #11,341 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 3 technology areas.

#11,341
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.5/100): 4.8
avg claims per patent: +1900%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11341 · US Corporation #11,341 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,341/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Marposs Societa'…
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 3 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1900% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Marposs Societa' Per Azioni (±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 Mcmaster-carr’s 40.5 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 11.5 pts (28%) Velocity 20.0 pts (49%) Breadth 6.1 pts (15%) Claim depth 2.9 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Katerra · near

41
F5 Networks · near

41
McMaster-Carr Supply · this assignee

41
MicroCube · near

41
Robertson Intellectu… · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mcmaster-carr's Innovation Score is 40.5/100 (top 35% 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 Mcmaster-carr?

Each dot is one of Mcmaster-carr’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). Mcmaster-carr’s own 4.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Mcmaster-carr's grants concentrate

McMaster-Carr Supply Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 11.1% 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 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Mcmaster-carr sits between Misapplied Sciences, Inc. and Mimecast Services Ltd..

Mcmaster-carr's three-year grant acceleration

McMaster-Carr Supply Company shows 19 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.

Misapplied Scienc…

27
MLS ACQ

27
Marposs Societa'…

27
Mclaughlin Gormle…

27
Menarini Silicon…

27
Micron Devices

27
Miir Holdings

27
Mimecast Services

27
Mcmaster-carr Sup… ◀

27

What this shows McMaster-Carr holds 27 patents at rank #11,346, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near McMaster-Carr

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,346 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in McMaster-Carr's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for McMaster-Carr, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), McMaster-Carr ranks #3,377 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

MicroCube, LLC 41 Robertson Intellectual Properties, LLC 41 F5 Networks, Inc. 41 Katerra Inc. 41

Mcmaster-carr's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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McMaster-Carr Supply Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	3.7%
2020	1	3.7%
2022	1	3.7%
2023	6	22.2%
2024	12	44.4%
2025partial year	6	22.2%

Which technologies does McMaster-Carr Supply Company 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 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 3 of 3 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

McMaster-Carr Supply Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

McMaster-Carr Supply Company'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,), 11.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #11,341 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare McMaster-Carr Supply Company against Misapplied Sciences, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.5/100 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

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