Where does Prime Equipment Group, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Prime Equipment Group, LLC ranks #37,060 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 Prime Equipment Group, LLC hold?

Prime Equipment Group, LLC holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2023, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Prime Equipment Group, LLC's Innovation Score?

Prime Equipment Group, LLC has an Innovation Score of 28.2 out of 100 (26th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Prime Equipment Group, LLC focus on?

Prime Equipment Group, LLC's top technology area is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish) with 7 patents, ranking #33 of 119 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is Prime Equipment Group, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Prime Equipment Group, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Prime Equipment Group, LLC's patents?

Prime Equipment Group, LLC's patents average 16.4 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 Prime Equipment Group, LLC 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

Prime Equipment Group, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2023. 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: A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Prime ranks #37,060 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 3 technology areas.

#37,060
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 26th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.2/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R37060 · US Corporation #37,060 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #37,060/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Premium Home Comfort
CPC-NARROW A22C · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2023 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Premium Home Comfort, 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 Prime’s 28.2 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 7.2 pts (26%) Velocity 5.0 pts (18%) Breadth 6.1 pts (22%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Prime Equipment Group · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Prime's Innovation Score is 28.2/100 (26th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Prime?

Each dot is one of Prime’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). Prime’s own 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Prime's grants concentrate

Prime Equipment Group, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Prime sits between Premium Home Comfort, Inc. and Prince Sultan University.

Prime's three-year grant acceleration

Prime Equipment Group, LLC shows 3 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.

Premium Home Comf…

7
Prest-o-fit Manuf…

7
Prier Products

7
Primaryio

7
Prime Research So…

7
Primewan

7
Prince Lionheart

7
Prince Sultan Uni…

7
Prime Equipment G… ◀

7

What this shows Prime holds 7 patents at rank #37,059, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Prime

By rank, the assignees closest to #37,059 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A22C (Processing Meat)

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

Prime's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 26th percentile higher than 26% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2023

Grants by year

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

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Prime Equipment Group, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	28.6%
2021	2	28.6%
2022	1	14.3%
2023	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Prime Equipment Group, LLC patent most?

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 7

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

A22B - Slaughtering 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

Prime Equipment Group, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Prime Equipment Group, LLC's lead technology class is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A22C
Ranked #37,060 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Prime Equipment Group, LLC against Premium Home Comfort, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.2/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.