Where does Postle Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Postle Industries, Inc. ranks #15,542 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 Postle Industries, Inc. hold?

Postle Industries, Inc. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Postle Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Postle Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Postle Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Postle Industries, Inc.'s patents average 16.9 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 Postle 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 US Corporation

Postle Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Postle Industries, Inc. focus on?

Postle Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 14 patents, ranking #131 of 1,623 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 7 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Postle ranks #15,542 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 7 technology areas.

#15,542
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15542 · US Corporation #15,542 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,542/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pfenex
CPC-NARROW B23K · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pfenex Inc. (±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 Postle’s 44.9 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 10.3 pts (23%) Velocity 15.0 pts (33%) Breadth 9.4 pts (21%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Postle Industries · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Postle's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 24% 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 Postle?

Each dot is one of Postle’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). Postle’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Postle's grants concentrate

Postle Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 73.7% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Postle sits between Pfenex Inc. and Prohero Group Co., Ltd..

Postle's three-year grant acceleration

Postle Industries, Inc. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Pfenex

19
Pipeline Medical

19
Polyic & KG

19
Pop Test Oncology

19
Precision

19
Privowny

19
Proampac Holdings

19
Prohero Group

19
Postle Industries ◀

19

What this shows Postle holds 19 patents at rank #15,548, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Postle

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,548 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering)

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

Postle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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.

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Postle Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.3%
2017	2	10.5%
2019	1	5.3%
2020	1	5.3%
2021	2	10.5%
2022	2	10.5%
2023	7	36.8%
2025partial year	3	15.8%

Which technologies does Postle Industries, Inc. patent most?

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 14

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 11

C22C - Alloys 6

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 5

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 5

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 3

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 3

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Postle Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 73.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23K
Ranked #15,542 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Postle Industries, Inc. against Pfenex Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.9/100 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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