Where does Norwood Industries Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Norwood Industries Inc. ranks #24,904 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 Norwood Industries Inc. hold?

Norwood Industries Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Norwood Industries Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Norwood Industries Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.0 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Norwood Industries Inc. focus on?

Norwood Industries Inc.'s top technology area is B27B (Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor) with 5 patents, ranking #27 of 118 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

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

Norwood Industries Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -17% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

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

Norwood Industries Inc.'s patents average 7.1 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 Norwood 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 Foreign Corporation

Norwood Industries Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B27B (Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Norwood ranks #24,904 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 3 technology areas.

#24,904
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.0/100): 7.1
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24904 · Foreign Corporation #24,904 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,904/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ningbo Meiying…
CPC-NARROW B27B · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ningbo Meiying Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Norwood’s 39.0 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 (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (51%) Breadth 6.1 pts (16%) Claim depth 4.3 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Norwood Industries · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Norwood's Innovation Score is 39.0/100 (top 39% 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 Norwood?

Each dot is one of Norwood’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). Norwood’s own 7.1 claims/patent is at or below the 7.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Norwood's grants concentrate

Norwood Industries Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under B27B (Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Norwood sits between Ningbo Meiying Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. and Nuflora International Pty Ltd.

Norwood's three-year grant acceleration

Norwood Industries Inc. shows 4 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.

Ningbo Meiying Te…

11
Norgen Biotek

11
Northeast Institu…

11
Northeast Petrole…

11
Notal Vision

11
Novanta

11
Nuclera Nucleics

11
Nuflora Internati…

11
Norwood Industries ◀

11

What this shows Norwood holds 11 patents at rank #24,900, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Norwood

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,900 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B27B (Saws FOR Wood OR Similar Material)

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

Norwood's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Norwood Industries Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	4	36.4%
2020	1	9.1%
2023	3	27.3%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Norwood Industries Inc. patent most?

B27B - Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor 5

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 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

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

Norwood Industries Inc.'s lead technology class is B27B (Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B27B
Ranked #24,904 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Norwood Industries Inc. against Ningbo Meiying Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.0/100 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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