Where does Pass & Seymour, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pass & Seymour, Inc. ranks #3,310 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 Pass & Seymour, Inc. hold?

Pass & Seymour, Inc. holds 113 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Pass & Seymour, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Pass & Seymour, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.4 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pass & Seymour, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pass & Seymour, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Pass & Seymour, Inc.'s patents?

Pass & Seymour, Inc.'s patents average 26.4 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 Pass & Seymour, 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

Pass & Seymour, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Pass & Seymour, Inc. focus on?

Pass & Seymour, Inc.'s top technology area is H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices) with 47 patents. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 113 granted patents across 22 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: H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pass ranks #3,310 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 113 patents across 22 technology areas.

#3,310
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.4/100): 26.4
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3310 · US Corporation #3,310 · 113 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 113 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,310/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kanzaki Kokyukoki MFG
CPC-FOCUS H01H · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kanzaki Kokyukoki MFG. 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Basell Poliolefine… · near

54
Dicerna Pharmaceutic… · near

54
Ford Motor · near

54
Pass & Seymour · this assignee

54
Visteon Global · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pass's Innovation Score is 54.4/100 (top 8% 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.

Where Pass's grants concentrate

Pass & Seymour, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 41.6% of grants classified under H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (26 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2020. By volume, Pass sits between Kanzaki Kokyukoki MFG. Co., Ltd. and Senseonics, Incorporated.

Pass's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pass & Seymour, Inc. moved from 27 to 26 grants (0.96x 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 #1,289. See the growth leaderboard.

Kanzaki Kokyukoki…

113
Medicalip

113
Mikuni

113
Panasonic I-pro S…

113
Rothy's

113
Sekisui Medical

113
Savannah River Nu…

113
Senseonics Incorp…

113
Pass & Seymour ◀

113

What this shows Pass holds 113 patents at rank #3,310, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pass

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,310 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01H (Electric Switches)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 54 Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. 54 Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l. 54 Ford Motor Company 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (26.4 here).

Cidra Corporate Services LLC 26.4 avg Cleerly, Inc. 26.4 avg Tactual Labs Co. 26.4 avg Ultravision Technologies, LLC 26.4 avg

Pass's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Pass & Seymour, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	26	23.0%
2016	8	7.1%
2017	11	9.7%
2018	9	8.0%
2019	14	12.4%
2020	6	5.3%
2021	7	6.2%
2022	12	10.6%
2023	6	5.3%
2024	8	7.1%
2025partial year	6	5.3%

Which technologies does Pass & Seymour, Inc. patent most?

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 47

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 45

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 32

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 27

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 20

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 17

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 13

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 12

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 8

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 6

H03K - Pulse Technique 5

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 4

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 3

Top 15 of 22 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,310

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.4 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

Pass & Seymour, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pass & Seymour, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices), 41.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01H
Ranked #3,310 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pass & Seymour, Inc. against Kanzaki Kokyukoki MFG. Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.4/100 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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