Where does Pennsy Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pennsy Corporation ranks #11,389 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 Pennsy Corporation hold?

Pennsy Corporation holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Pennsy Corporation's Innovation Score?

Pennsy Corporation has an Innovation Score of 41.0 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Pennsy Corporation focus on?

Pennsy Corporation's top technology area is B61G (COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances) with 19 patents, ranking #1 of 46 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Pennsy Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pennsy Corporation's recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Pennsy Corporation's patents?

Pennsy Corporation's patents average 29.8 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 Pennsy 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

Pennsy Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 10 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: B61G (COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pennsy ranks #11,389 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 10 technology areas.

#11,389
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.0/100): 29.8
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11389 · US Corporation #11,389 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,389/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Panaya
CPC-FOCUS B61G · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 29.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Panaya 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 Pennsy’s 41.0 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 11.5 pts (28%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 11.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (37%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agrofresh · near

41
Florida Institute… · near

41
Gaming Arts · near

41
Orckit IP · near

41
Pennsy · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pennsy's Innovation Score is 41.0/100 (top 34% 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 Pennsy?

Each dot is one of Pennsy’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). Pennsy’s own 29.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pennsy's grants concentrate

Pennsy Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 70.4% of grants classified under B61G (COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Pennsy sits between PLY GEM Industries, Inc. and Pylon Manufacturing Corporation.

Pennsy's three-year grant acceleration

Pennsy Corporation shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

PLY GEM Industries

27
Poet

27
Panaya

27
Parasol Medical

27
Pretium Packaging…

27
Prilit Optronics

27
Productos Familia

27
Pylon Manufacturi…

27
Pennsy ◀

27

What this shows Pennsy holds 27 patents at rank #11,390, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pennsy

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,390 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61G (Couplings)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pennsy, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B61G (Couplings), Pennsy ranks #1 of 46 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Orckit IP, LLC 41 Agrofresh Inc. 41 Gaming Arts, LLC 41 Florida Institute of Technology, Inc. 41

Pennsy's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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Pennsy Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.1%
2016	5	18.5%
2017	5	18.5%
2018	1	3.7%
2019	4	14.8%
2020	1	3.7%
2021	3	11.1%
2022	3	11.1%
2023	1	3.7%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Pennsy Corporation patent most?

B61G - COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances 19

B22C - Foundry Moulding 8

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 4

B61F - Rail Vehicle Suspensions, e.g. Underframes, Bogies OR Arrangements OF Wheel AXLES; Rail Vehicles FOR USE ON Tracks OF Different WIDTH; Preventing Derailing OF Rail VEHICLES; Wheel Guards, Obstruction Removers OR THE Like FOR Rail Vehicles 4

C22C - Alloys 4

B61K - Auxiliary Equipment Specially Adapted FOR Railways, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 2

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

B61H - Brakes OR Other Retarding Devices Specially Adapted FOR Rail VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Disposition Thereof IN Rail Vehicles 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Pennsy Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pennsy Corporation's lead technology class is B61G (COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances), 70.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B61G
Ranked #11,389 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pennsy Corporation against PLY GEM Industries, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.0/100 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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