Where does Means Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Means Industries, Inc. ranks #4,162 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 Means Industries, Inc. hold?

Means Industries, Inc. holds 86 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Means Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Means Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.9 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%).

What technology areas does Means Industries, Inc. focus on?

Means Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 79 patents, ranking #22 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Means Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Means Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +44% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Means Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Means Industries, Inc.'s patents average 20.1 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 Means Industries, 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 US Corporation

Means Industries, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 86 granted patents across 14 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Means ranks #4,162 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 86 patents across 14 technology areas.

#4,162
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: +44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4162 · US Corporation #4,162 · 86 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 86 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,162/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kellogg Brown & Root
CPC-FOCUS F16D · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC (±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 Means’s 46.9 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 15.4 pts (33%) Velocity 6.2 pts (13%) Breadth 13.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Handylab · near

47
Hussmann · near

47
Means Industries · this assignee

47
Solaero · near

47
Aeris Communications · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Means's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (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 Means?

Each dot is one of Means’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). Means’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Means's grants concentrate

Means Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 91.9% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (15 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Means sits between Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. and Protegrity Corporation.

Means's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Means Industries, Inc. moved from 26 to 24 grants (0.92x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Kyocera SLD Laser

86
Kellogg Brown & R…

86
Kent State Univer…

86
Mochida Pharmaceu…

86
National Presto I…

86
Neturen

86
Novamont S p A

86
Protegrity

86
Means Industries ◀

86

What this shows Means holds 86 patents at rank #4,163, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Means

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,163 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Means, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation), Means ranks #22 of 1,090 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Hussmann Corporation 47 Solaero Technologies Corp. 47 Aeris Communications, Inc. 47 Handylab, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.1 here).

e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc. 20.1 avg ConnectWise, LLC 20.1 avg D2L Corporation 20.1 avg Harmonic, Inc. 20.1 avg

Means'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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Means Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	8.1%
2016	10	11.6%
2017	6	7.0%
2018	5	5.8%
2019	4	4.7%
2020	15	17.4%
2021	7	8.1%
2022	3	3.5%
2023	7	8.1%
2024	14	16.3%
2025partial year	8	9.3%

Which technologies does Means Industries, Inc. patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 79

F16H - Gearing 23

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 14

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 14

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 5

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 4

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 3

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 2

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 1

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Means Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Means Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 91.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #4,162 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Means Industries, Inc. against Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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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