Where does SharkNinja Operating LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SharkNinja Operating LLC ranks #522 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 SharkNinja Operating LLC hold?

SharkNinja Operating LLC holds 862 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 70 technology areas.

What is SharkNinja Operating LLC's Innovation Score?

SharkNinja Operating LLC has an Innovation Score of 64.7 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does SharkNinja Operating LLC focus on?

SharkNinja Operating LLC's top technology area is A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General) with 178 patents, ranking #8 of 516 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 70 CPC subclasses total.

Is SharkNinja Operating LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SharkNinja Operating LLC's recent grant velocity is +145% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for SharkNinja Operating LLC's patents?

SharkNinja Operating LLC's patents average 8.6 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 SharkNinja Operating 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

SharkNinja Operating LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 862 granted patents across 70 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sharkninja ranks #522 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 862 patents across 70 technology areas.

#522
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.7/100): 8.6
avg claims per patent: +145%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R522 · US Corporation #522 · 862 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 862 grants
TOP-DECILE #522/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Zebra
CPC-WIDE A47L · 70 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +145% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Zebra Technologies Corporation (±1 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 Sharkninja’s 64.7 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 23.4 pts (36%) Velocity 11.2 pts (17%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 5.2 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
KunShan Go-Visionox… · near

65
SharkNinja Operating · this assignee

65
Acer Incorporated · near

65
FEI · near

65
Yanshan University · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sharkninja's Innovation Score is 64.7/100 (top 2% 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 Sharkninja?

Each dot is one of Sharkninja’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). Sharkninja’s own 8.6 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Sharkninja's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, SharkNinja Operating LLC received 543 grants versus 222 in 2015–2019 (+145% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 156 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 8. Lead class A47L accounts for 20.6% of the portfolio across 70 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (#518) and Case Western Reserve University (#526).

Sharkninja's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SharkNinja Operating LLC moved from 226 to 378 grants (1.67x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #325. See the growth leaderboard.

Rolls-royce North…

868
Daimler

866
Avago Internation…

864
Zebra

863
Sharkninja Operat… ◀

862
Coretronic

858
Lear

858
Cable Television…

857
Case Western Rese…

856

What this shows SharkNinja holds 862 patents at rank #522, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SharkNinja

By rank, the assignees closest to #522 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SharkNinja, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning), SharkNinja ranks #8 of 516 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd 65 Acer Incorporated 65 FEI Company 65 Yanshan University 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.6 here).

Camelbak Products, LLC 8.6 avg Sanford L.P. 8.6 avg Elkay Manufacturing Company 8.6 avg Changzhou University 8.7 avg

Sharkninja's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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SharkNinja Operating LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	0.9%
2016	38	4.4%
2017	57	6.6%
2018	58	6.7%
2019	61	7.1%
2020	74	8.6%
2021	91	10.6%
2022	91	10.6%
2023	131	15.2%
2024	156	18.1%
2025partial year	97	11.3%

Which technologies does SharkNinja Operating LLC patent most?

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 178

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 169

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 49

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 37

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 35

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 25

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 23

A46B - Brushes 22

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 18

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 16

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 12

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 12

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 10

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 9

B01D - Separation 8

Top 15 of 70 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

SharkNinja Operating LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SharkNinja Operating LLC's lead technology class is A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General), 20.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47L
Ranked #522 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SharkNinja Operating LLC against Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.7/100 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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