Where does Sauder Woodworking Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sauder Woodworking Co. ranks #25,138 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 Sauder Woodworking Co. hold?

Sauder Woodworking Co. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Sauder Woodworking Co.'s Innovation Score?

Sauder Woodworking Co. has an Innovation Score of 37.6 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sauder Woodworking Co. focus on?

Sauder Woodworking Co.'s top technology area is A47B (TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture) with 8 patents, ranking #99 of 990 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sauder Woodworking Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sauder Woodworking Co.'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 Sauder Woodworking Co.'s patents?

Sauder Woodworking Co.'s patents average 19.6 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 Sauder Woodworking Co. 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

Sauder Woodworking Co.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A47B (TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sauder ranks #25,138 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 9 technology areas.

#25,138
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.6/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25138 · US Corporation #25,138 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,138/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sanwa Techno
CPC-NARROW A47B · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sanwa Techno 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.

How Sauder’s 37.6 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 8.6 pts (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (18%) Breadth 10.6 pts (28%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sauder Woodworking · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sauder's Innovation Score is 37.6/100 (top 43% 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 Sauder?

Each dot is one of Sauder’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). Sauder’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sauder's grants concentrate

Sauder Woodworking Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 72.7% of grants classified under A47B (TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Sauder sits between Sanwa Techno Co., Ltd. and Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc..

Sauder's three-year grant acceleration

Sauder Woodworking Co. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Sanwa Techno

11
Sany Heavy Indust…

11
Sasol WAX

11
Sato Pharmaceutic…

11
Schottky LSI

11
Sciperio

11
Scott Cutters

11
Scripps Networks…

11
Sauder Woodworking ◀

11

What this shows Sauder holds 11 patents at rank #25,115, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sauder

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,115 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47B (Tables)

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

Sauder's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sauder Woodworking Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	27.3%
2018	2	18.2%
2019	2	18.2%
2020	1	9.1%
2022	1	9.1%
2023	1	9.1%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Sauder Woodworking Co. patent most?

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 2

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 1

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 1

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Sauder Woodworking Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sauder Woodworking Co.'s lead technology class is A47B (TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture), 72.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47B
Ranked #25,138 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sauder Woodworking Co. against Sanwa Techno Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.6/100 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

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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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