Where does Miller Dowel Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Miller Dowel Company ranks #24,807 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 Miller Dowel Company hold?

Miller Dowel Company holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Miller Dowel Company's Innovation Score?

Miller Dowel Company has an Innovation Score of 45.9 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Miller Dowel Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Miller Dowel Company's recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Miller Dowel Company's patents?

Miller Dowel Company's patents average 14.0 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 Miller Dowel 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

Miller Dowel Company

Q: What technology areas does Miller Dowel Company focus on?

Miller Dowel Company's top technology area is F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing) with 6 patents, ranking #198 of 2,095 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 12 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: F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Miller ranks #24,807 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 12 technology areas.

#24,807
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.9/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24807 · US Corporation #24,807 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,807/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Micro Macro Assets
CPC-FOCUS F16B · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Micro Macro Assets, 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 Miller’s 45.9 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 8.6 pts (19%) Velocity 16.7 pts (36%) Breadth 12.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Miller Dowel · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Miller's Innovation Score is 45.9/100 (top 22% 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 Miller?

Each dot is one of Miller’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). Miller’s own 14.0 claims/patent is at or below the 18.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Miller's grants concentrate

Miller Dowel Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 54.5% of grants classified under F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Miller sits between Micro Macro Assets, LLC and ModelOp, Inc..

Miller's three-year grant acceleration

Miller Dowel Company shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Micro Macro Assets

11
Microvascular Tis…

11
Microsoft Technol…

11
Middle Atlantic P…

11
Mindspeed

11
Mobile Heartbeat

11
Mocktail Beverages

11
Modelop

11
Miller Dowel ◀

11

What this shows Miller holds 11 patents at rank #24,814, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Miller

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,814 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements…)

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

Miller's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Miller Dowel Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	9.1%
2018	2	18.2%
2021	2	18.2%
2022	2	18.2%
2023	3	27.3%
2025partial year	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Miller Dowel Company patent most?

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 6

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 4

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 4

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 4

E04G - SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; Building Implements OR Aids, OR Their USE; Handling Building Materials ON THE SITE; Repairing, Breaking-up OR Other Work ON Existing Buildings 2

B23B - TURNING; Boring 1

B27G - Accessory Machines OR Apparatus FOR Working Wood OR Similar MATERIALS; Tools FOR Working Wood OR Similar Materials ; Safety Devices FOR Wood Working Machines OR Tools 1

B27M - Working OF Wood NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B27b - B27L; Manufacture OF Specific Wooden Articles 1

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

E01C - Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair 1

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Miller Dowel Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Miller Dowel Company's lead technology class is F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing), 54.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16B
Ranked #24,807 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Miller Dowel Company against Micro Macro Assets, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.9/100 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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