Where does Smith & Wesson Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Smith & Wesson Inc. ranks #2,864 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 Smith & Wesson Inc. hold?

Smith & Wesson Inc. holds 134 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Smith & Wesson Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Smith & Wesson Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Smith & Wesson Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Smith & Wesson Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -12% 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 Smith & Wesson Inc.'s patents?

Smith & Wesson Inc.'s patents average 13.4 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 Smith & Wesson Inc. 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

Smith & Wesson Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Smith & Wesson Inc. focus on?

Smith & Wesson Inc.'s top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 86 patents, ranking #1 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 134 granted patents across 4 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Smith ranks #2,864 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 134 patents across 4 technology areas.

#2,864
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2864 · US Corporation #2,864 · 134 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 134 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,864/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ingenico
CPC-NARROW F41A · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ingenico 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 Smith’s 36.4 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 16.9 pts (46%) Velocity 4.3 pts (12%) Breadth 7.1 pts (20%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Armour · near

36
Kasai Kogyo · near

36
Kokusai Keisokuki · near

36
Smith & Wesson · this assignee

36
Tymphany Acoustic… · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smith's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 46% 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 Smith?

Each dot is one of Smith’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). Smith’s own 13.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Smith's grants concentrate

Smith & Wesson Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 64.2% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (23 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2023. By volume, Smith sits between Ingenico Inc. and Wayne Fueling Systems LLC.

Smith's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Smith & Wesson Inc. moved from 43 to 28 grants (0.65x 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 #2,309. See the growth leaderboard.

Ingenico

134
P-tech

134
Siemens Healthine…

134
Sumida

134
Tokyo Visionary O…

134
Universite DE Str…

134
Vioptix

134
Wayne Fueling Sys…

134
Smith & Wesson ◀

134

What this shows Smith holds 134 patents at rank #2,865, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Smith

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,865 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Smith, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), Smith ranks #1 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Tymphany Acoustic Technology (HUIZHOU) Co., Ltd. 36 Kasai Kogyo Co., Ltd. 36 Kokusai Keisokuki Kabushiki Kaisha 36 Armour Technologies, Inc. 36

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Dongwoo Fine-chem Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg VueReal Inc. 13.4 avg Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Innovation & Technology S. L. 13.4 avg KIA Corporation 13.4 avg

Smith's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 46% higher than 54% 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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Smith & Wesson Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	8.2%
2016	9	6.7%
2017	16	11.9%
2018	17	12.7%
2019	13	9.7%
2020	7	5.2%
2021	23	17.2%
2022	9	6.7%
2023	4	3.0%
2024	15	11.2%
2025partial year	10	7.5%

Which technologies does Smith & Wesson Inc. patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 86

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 31

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Top 4 of 4 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

Smith & Wesson Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Smith & Wesson Inc.'s lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 64.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #2,864 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Smith & Wesson Inc. against Ingenico Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.4/100 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

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