Where does Primary Weapons rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Primary Weapons ranks #27,177 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 Primary Weapons hold?

Primary Weapons holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Primary Weapons's Innovation Score?

Primary Weapons has an Innovation Score of 17.8 out of 100 (5th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Primary Weapons's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Primary Weapons's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 Primary Weapons's patents?

Primary Weapons's patents average 5.7 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 Primary Weapons 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

Primary Weapons

Q: What technology areas does Primary Weapons focus on?

Primary Weapons's top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Primary ranks #27,177 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 3 technology areas.

#27,177
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 5th percentile
by Innovation Score (17.8/100): 5.7
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27177 · US Corporation #27,177 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,177/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Prestan Products
CPC-NARROW F41A · 3 areas
INNOV-LOW 17.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Prestan Products LLC (±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
Primary Weapons · this assignee

18
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Primary's Innovation Score is 17.8/100 (5th percentile 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 Primary's grants concentrate

Primary Weapons is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Primary sits between Prestan Products LLC and ProNova Solutions, LLC.

Prestan Products

10
Prestige Ameritech

10
Price Industries

10
Pricer AB

10
Prime Datum

10
Prime Merger Sub

10
Promab Biotechnol…

10
Pronova Solutions

10
Primary Weapons ◀

10

What this shows Primary holds 10 patents at rank #27,177, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Primary

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,177 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Primary's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

18 5th percentile higher than 5% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

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

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Primary Weapons patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	10.0%
2017	5	50.0%
2018	2	20.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2021	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Primary Weapons patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 7

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 1

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 1

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#27,177

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

17.8 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

Primary Weapons's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Primary Weapons's lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #27,177 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Primary Weapons against Prestan Products LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 17.8/100 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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