Where does Smith's Consumer Products, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Smith's Consumer Products, Inc. ranks #9,874 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's Consumer Products, Inc. hold?

Smith's Consumer Products, Inc. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Smith's Consumer Products, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Smith's Consumer Products, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 21.0 out of 100 (8th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Smith's Consumer Products, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Smith's Consumer Products, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -81% 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's Consumer Products, Inc.'s patents?

Smith's Consumer Products, Inc.'s patents average 2.5 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's Consumer Products, 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's Consumer Products, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Smith's Consumer Products, Inc. focus on?

Smith's Consumer Products, Inc.'s top technology area is B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents) with 2 patents, ranking #189 of 468 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Smith's ranks #9,874 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 4 technology areas.

#9,874
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 8th percentile
by Innovation Score (21.0/100): 2.5
avg claims per patent: -81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9874 · US Corporation #9,874 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,874/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saurer Spinning…
CPC-NARROW B24B · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 21.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. (±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’s 21.0 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 12.1 pts (57%) Velocity 0.4 pts (2%) Breadth 7.1 pts (34%) Claim depth 1.5 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ovata B V · near

21
Phantom Cyber · near

21
Chameleon Holding · near

21
ACE Light & Tech… · near

21
Smith's Consumer… · this assignee

21
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smith's's Innovation Score is 21.0/100 (8th percentile 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's?

Each dot is one of Smith's’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’s own 2.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Smith's's grants concentrate

Smith's Consumer Products, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 6.3% of grants classified under B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Smith's sits between Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. and Spineology Inc..

Smith's's three-year grant acceleration

Smith's Consumer Products, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Saurer Spinning S…

32
Seeqc

32
Shenzhen Goldsun…

32
Skier's Choice

32
Smiths Detection

32
Spansion

32
Spiber

32
Spineology

32
Smith's Consumer… ◀

32

What this shows Smith's holds 32 patents at rank #9,883, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Smith's

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,883 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B24B (Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Smith's, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B24B (Machines), Smith's ranks #189 of 468 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (21 here).

ACE Light & Electronic Tech (NINGBO) Co., Ltd. 21 Chameleon Holding Ltd 21 Phantom Cyber Corporation 21 Ovata B.V. 21

Smith's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

21 8th percentile higher than 8% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

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's Consumer Products, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	9.4%
2016	4	12.5%
2017	3	9.4%
2018	2	6.3%
2019	15	46.9%
2020	4	12.5%
2023	1	3.1%

Which technologies does Smith's Consumer Products, Inc. patent most?

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 2

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 2

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

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's Consumer Products, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Smith's Consumer Products, Inc.'s lead technology class is B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents), 6.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B24B
Ranked #9,874 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Smith's Consumer Products, Inc. against Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 21.0/100 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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