Where does Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation ranks #190 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 Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation hold?

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation holds 2,095 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 190 technology areas.

What is Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation's Innovation Score?

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation has an Innovation Score of 71.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation's recent grant velocity is +181% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation's patents?

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation's patents average 15.0 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 Milwaukee Electric Tool 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

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation focus on?

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation's top technology area is B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 415 patents. Grants appear in 190 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,095 granted patents across 190 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: B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Milwaukee ranks #190 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,095 patents across 190 technology areas.

#190
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (71.7/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +181%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R190 · US Corporation #190 · 2,095 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #190/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rovi Guides
CPC-WIDE B25F · 190 areas
INNOV-STRONG 71.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +181% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rovi Guides, Inc. (±4 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aptiv · near

72
Beijing BOE Sensor… · near

72
General Electric · near

72
Milwaukee Electric… · this assignee

72
Robert Bosch · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Milwaukee's Innovation Score is 71.7/100 (top 1% 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.

How Milwaukee's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation received 1,327 grants versus 472 in 2015–2019 (+181% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 383 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 57. Lead class B25F accounts for 19.8% of the portfolio across 190 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation (#186) and Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (#194).

Milwaukee's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation moved from 550 to 926 grants (1.68x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #319. See the growth leaderboard.

Dolby Laboratorie…

2,118
Intuitive Surgica…

2,117
Walmart Apollo

2,112
Interdigital Pate…

2,111
Milwaukee Electri… ◀

2,095
Rovi Guides

2,091
Innolux

2,082
Fujifilm Business…

2,077
Beijing BOE Optoe…

2,069

What this shows Milwaukee holds 2,095 patents at rank #190, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Milwaukee

By rank, the assignees closest to #190 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Milwaukee, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

General Electric Company 72 Robert Bosch GmbH 72 Aptiv Technologies AG 72 Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Robotis Co., Ltd. 15.0 avg Knauf Gips KG 15.0 avg Keithley Instruments, LLC 15.0 avg Alcon Inc. 15.0 avg

Milwaukee's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	57	2.7%
2016	72	3.4%
2017	78	3.7%
2018	116	5.5%
2019	149	7.1%
2020	170	8.1%
2021	231	11.0%
2022	237	11.3%
2023	306	14.6%
2024	383	18.3%
2025partial year	296	14.1%

Which technologies does Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation patent most?

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 415

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 293

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 191

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 167

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 165

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 158

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 142

B23B - TURNING; Boring 133

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 127

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 126

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 122

B25D - Percussive Tools 113

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 97

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 94

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 86

Top 15 of 190 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#190

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

71.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation's lead technology class is B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 19.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25F
Ranked #190 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation against Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 71.7/100 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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