Where does New Balance Athletics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), New Balance Athletics, Inc. ranks #6,367 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 New Balance Athletics, Inc. hold?

New Balance Athletics, Inc. holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is New Balance Athletics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

New Balance Athletics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does New Balance Athletics, Inc. focus on?

New Balance Athletics, Inc.'s top technology area is A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear) with 18 patents, ranking #24 of 317 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is New Balance Athletics, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

New Balance Athletics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +0% 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 New Balance Athletics, Inc.'s patents?

New Balance Athletics, Inc.'s patents average 10.2 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 New Balance Athletics, 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

New Balance Athletics, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, New ranks #6,367 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 22 technology areas.

#6,367
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6367 · US Corporation #6,367 · 53 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,367/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Navix International
CPC-FOCUS A43B · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Navix International Limited (±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 New’s 41.5 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 13.8 pts (33%) Velocity 5.0 pts (12%) Breadth 16.6 pts (40%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mastercard ASIA/PACI… · near

41
New Balance Athletics · this assignee

41
Reynolds Presto… · near

41
Sony Europe · near

41
vArmour Networks · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows New's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 New?

Each dot is one of New’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). New’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 11.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where New's grants concentrate

New Balance Athletics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 34% of grants classified under A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, New sits between Newmax Technology Co., Ltd. and Polyplastics Co., Ltd..

New's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, New Balance Athletics, Inc. moved from 20 to 15 grants (0.75x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Newmax Technology

53
Ningbo Well Elect…

53
Navix Internation…

53
Nemera La Verpill…

53
Outdoor Edge Cutl…

53
Orion Labs

53
Pierre Fabre Derm…

53
Polyplastics

53
New Balance Athle… ◀

53

What this shows New holds 53 patents at rank #6,367, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near New

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,367 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A43B (Characteristic Features OF Footwear)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for New, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A43B (Characteristic Features OF Footwear), New ranks #24 of 317 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

vArmour Networks, Inc. 41 Sony Europe Limited 41 Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. 41 Reynolds Presto Products Inc. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.2 here).

Keystone Retaining Wall Systems, LLC 10.2 avg Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi VE Ticaret Anonim Sirketi 10.2 avg Soken, Inc. 10.2 avg Kubota Corporation 10.2 avg

New's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

New Balance Athletics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	11.3%
2017	5	9.4%
2018	4	7.5%
2019	10	18.9%
2020	6	11.3%
2021	4	7.5%
2022	5	9.4%
2023	7	13.2%
2024	3	5.7%
2025partial year	3	5.7%

Which technologies does New Balance Athletics, Inc. patent most?

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 18

A43D - Machines, Tools, Equipment OR Methods FOR Manufacturing OR Repairing Footwear 11

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 8

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 7

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 6

A43C - Fastenings OR Attachments OF FOOTWEAR; Laces IN General 5

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 5

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

Top 15 of 22 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

New Balance Athletics, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

New Balance Athletics, Inc.'s lead technology class is A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear), 34% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A43B
Ranked #6,367 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare New Balance Athletics, Inc. against Newmax Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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