Where does Southwire Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Southwire Company, LLC ranks #1,705 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 Southwire Company, LLC hold?

Southwire Company, LLC holds 241 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 90 technology areas.

What is Southwire Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Southwire Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 59.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Southwire Company, LLC focus on?

Southwire Company, LLC's top technology area is H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines) with 82 patents, ranking #8 of 985 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 90 CPC subclasses total.

Is Southwire Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Southwire Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is +7% 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 Southwire Company, LLC's patents?

Southwire Company, LLC's patents average 15.6 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 Southwire Company, 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

Southwire Company, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 241 granted patents across 90 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: H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Southwire ranks #1,705 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 241 patents across 90 technology areas.

#1,705
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: +7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1705 · US Corporation #1,705 · 241 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 241 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,705/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dometic Sweden AB
CPC-WIDE H02G · 90 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dometic Sweden AB (±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 Southwire’s 59.6 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 19.0 pts (32%) Velocity 6.3 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Inventec · near

60
AT&T Technical… · near

60
Southwire · this assignee

60
Techtronic Power… · near

60
The University Of… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Southwire's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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 Southwire?

Each dot is one of Southwire’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). Southwire’s own 15.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Southwire's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Southwire Company, LLC received 119 grants versus 111 in 2015–2019 (+7% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 31 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 18. Lead class H02G accounts for 34% of the portfolio across 90 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Dometic Sweden AB (#1,701) and Medtronic Xomed, Inc. (#1,709).

Southwire's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Southwire Company, LLC moved from 73 to 69 grants (0.94x 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 #1,341. See the growth leaderboard.

Dometic Sweden AB

241
Lextar

241
Roland

241
Sony Olympus Medi…

241
Southwire ◀

241
Arkray

240
Dana Heavy Vehicl…

240
Entit Software

239
Medtronic Xomed

239

What this shows Southwire holds 241 patents at rank #1,705, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Southwire

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,705 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Southwire, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines), Southwire ranks #8 of 985 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc. 60 Techtronic Power Tools Technology Limited 60 The University Of Queensland 60 Inventec Corporation 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

Devicor Medical Products, Inc. 15.6 avg Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. 15.6 avg Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. 15.6 avg Brunswick Corporation 15.6 avg

Southwire's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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.

View data table

Southwire Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	29	12.0%
2016	19	7.9%
2017	18	7.5%
2018	22	9.1%
2019	23	9.5%
2020	31	12.9%
2021	19	7.9%
2022	28	11.6%
2023	20	8.3%
2024	21	8.7%
2025partial year	11	4.6%

Which technologies does Southwire Company, LLC patent most?

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 82

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 76

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 43

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 38

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 19

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 19

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 16

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 16

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 13

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 13

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 10

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 10

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 9

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 9

Top 15 of 90 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

Southwire Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Southwire Company, LLC's lead technology class is H02G (Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines), 34% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02G
Ranked #1,705 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Southwire Company, LLC against Dometic Sweden AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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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