Where does Specialty Sales, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Specialty Sales, LLC ranks #33,396 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 Specialty Sales, LLC hold?

Specialty Sales, LLC holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Specialty Sales, LLC's Innovation Score?

Specialty Sales, LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.6 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Specialty Sales, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Specialty Sales, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Specialty Sales, LLC's patents?

Specialty Sales, LLC's patents average 18.3 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 Specialty Sales, 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

Specialty Sales, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Specialty Sales, LLC focus on?

Specialty Sales, LLC's top technology area is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals) with 6 patents, ranking #167 of 1,035 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Specialty ranks #33,396 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 4 technology areas.

#33,396
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.6/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33396 · US Corporation #33,396 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #33,396/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sophono
CPC-NARROW A01K · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sophono, 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 Specialty’s 45.6 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 7.6 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (44%) Breadth 7.1 pts (16%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Specialty Sales · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Specialty's Innovation Score is 45.6/100 (top 23% 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 Specialty?

Each dot is one of Specialty’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). Specialty’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Specialty's grants concentrate

Specialty Sales, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Specialty sits between Sophono, Inc. and SpinLaunch Inc..

Specialty's three-year grant acceleration

Specialty Sales, LLC shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Sophono

8
Southchip Semicon…

8
Southwest Forestr…

8
Spatial Transcrip…

8
Spectrum Health I…

8
Speedplay

8
Spherical Block

8
Spinlaunch

8
Specialty Sales ◀

8

What this shows Specialty holds 8 patents at rank #33,434, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Specialty

By rank, the assignees closest to #33,434 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01K (Animal Husbandry)

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

Specialty's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Specialty Sales, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	3	37.5%
2023	4	50.0%
2025partial year	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Specialty Sales, LLC patent most?

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 6

A01L - Shoeing OF Animals 4

A61D - Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, OR Methods 3

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 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

Specialty Sales, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Specialty Sales, LLC's lead technology class is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01K
Ranked #33,396 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Specialty Sales, LLC against Sophono, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.