Where does Schenck Process LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Schenck Process LLC ranks #13,141 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 Schenck Process LLC hold?

Schenck Process LLC holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Schenck Process LLC's Innovation Score?

Schenck Process LLC has an Innovation Score of 43.1 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Schenck Process LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Schenck Process LLC's recent grant velocity is +56% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Schenck Process LLC's patents?

Schenck Process LLC's patents average 16.8 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 Schenck Process 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

Schenck Process LLC

Q: What technology areas does Schenck Process LLC focus on?

Schenck Process LLC's top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 6 patents, ranking #350 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 21 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Schenck ranks #13,141 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 21 technology areas.

#13,141
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.1/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13141 · US Corporation #13,141 · 23 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,141/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Safety Syringes
CPC-FOCUS B65G · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safety Syringes, 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 Schenck’s 43.1 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 11.0 pts (26%) Velocity 5.8 pts (13%) Breadth 16.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Schenck Process · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Schenck's Innovation Score is 43.1/100 (top 29% 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 Schenck?

Each dot is one of Schenck’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). Schenck’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Schenck's grants concentrate

Schenck Process LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 26.1% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Schenck sits between Strong Force VCN Portfolio 2019, LLC and Shenzhen Chitado Technology Co., Ltd.

Schenck's three-year grant acceleration

Schenck Process LLC shows 7 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.

Strong Force VCN…

23
Safety Syringes

23
Sartorius Bioanal…

23
Scentair

23
Sentrilock

23
Shanghai Hoto Tec…

23
Shenzhen Ami Tech…

23
Shenzhen Chitado…

23
Schenck Process ◀

23

What this shows Schenck holds 23 patents at rank #13,155, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Schenck

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,155 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Schenck's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% 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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Schenck Process LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.3%
2016	2	8.7%
2017	2	8.7%
2018	3	13.0%
2019	1	4.3%
2020	7	30.4%
2022	3	13.0%
2023	2	8.7%
2024	2	8.7%

Which technologies does Schenck Process LLC patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 6

B01D - Separation 5

G01G - Weighing 4

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

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 3

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

B04C - Apparatus Using Free Vortex Flow, e.g. Cyclones 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 1

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Schenck Process LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Schenck Process LLC's lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 26.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #13,141 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Schenck Process LLC against Strong Force VCN Portfolio 2019, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.1/100 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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