Where does Shaw Development, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shaw Development, LLC ranks #18,094 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 Shaw Development, LLC hold?

Shaw Development, LLC holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Shaw Development, LLC's Innovation Score?

Shaw Development, LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.3 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Shaw Development, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shaw Development, LLC's recent grant velocity is +40% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Shaw Development, LLC's patents?

Shaw Development, LLC's patents average 13.0 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 Shaw Development, 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

Shaw Development, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Shaw Development, LLC focus on?

Shaw Development, LLC's top technology area is F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines) with 7 patents, ranking #125 of 487 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 11 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: F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shaw ranks #18,094 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 11 technology areas.

#18,094
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.3/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18094 · US Corporation #18,094 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #18,094/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Secop
CPC-FOCUS F01N · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Secop GMBH (±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 Shaw’s 49.3 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 9.8 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 11.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shaw Development · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shaw's Innovation Score is 49.3/100 (top 15% 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 Shaw?

Each dot is one of Shaw’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). Shaw’s own 13.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 1.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Shaw's grants concentrate

Shaw Development, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 43.8% of grants classified under F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Shaw sits between Secop GMBH and Shenzhen Kejinming Electronic Co., Ltd..

Shaw's three-year grant acceleration

Shaw Development, LLC shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Secop

16
Seed

16
Seibu Giken

16
Shanghai Lees Man…

16
Shenzhen Bling Li…

16
Shenzhen Dogcare…

16
Shenzhen Eary Inn…

16
Shenzhen Kejinming

16
Shaw Development ◀

16

What this shows Shaw holds 16 patents at rank #18,076, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shaw

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,076 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR E…)

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

Shaw's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Shaw Development, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	12.5%
2018	2	12.5%
2019	1	6.3%
2022	2	12.5%
2023	1	6.3%
2024	4	25.0%
2025partial year	4	25.0%

Which technologies does Shaw Development, LLC patent most?

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 7

B01D - Separation 6

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

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

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 1

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Shaw Development, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shaw Development, LLC's lead technology class is F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines), 43.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F01N
Ranked #18,094 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shaw Development, LLC against Secop GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.3/100 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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