Where does Speedo International Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Speedo International Limited ranks #14,951 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 Speedo International Limited hold?

Speedo International Limited holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Speedo International Limited's Innovation Score?

Speedo International Limited has an Innovation Score of 27.9 out of 100 (25th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Speedo International Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Speedo International Limited's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Speedo International Limited's patents?

Speedo International Limited's patents average 7.3 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 Speedo International Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Speedo International Limited

Q: What technology areas does Speedo International Limited focus on?

Speedo International Limited's top technology area is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment) with 6 patents, ranking #236 of 1,021 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Speedo ranks #14,951 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 10 technology areas.

#14,951
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 25th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.9/100): 7.3
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14951 · Foreign Corporation #14,951 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,951/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shining 3D Tech
CPC-FOCUS A63B · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd. (±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 Speedo’s 27.9 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 10.5 pts (38%) Velocity 1.8 pts (6%) Breadth 11.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 4.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Speedo International · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Speedo's Innovation Score is 27.9/100 (25th 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 Speedo?

Each dot is one of Speedo’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). Speedo’s own 7.3 claims/patent is at or below the 13.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Speedo's grants concentrate

Speedo International Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 30% of grants classified under A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Speedo sits between Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd. and SSI Schäfer Automation GmbH (AT).

Speedo's three-year grant acceleration

Speedo International Limited shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Shining 3D Tech

20
Silicon Touch Tec…

20
Simonswerk

20
SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE…

20
Spex Corporate Ho…

20
SPG International

20
SRI Energy

20
SSI Schäfer Autom…

20
Speedo Internatio… ◀

20

What this shows Speedo holds 20 patents at rank #14,932, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Speedo

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,932 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training)

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

Speedo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 25th percentile higher than 25% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Speedo International Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.0%
2017	2	10.0%
2018	3	15.0%
2019	6	30.0%
2020	5	25.0%
2023	2	10.0%
2024	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Speedo International Limited patent most?

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 6

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 6

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 2

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 2

A41F - Garment FASTENINGS; Suspenders 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

B63C - Launching, Hauling-out, OR Dry-docking OF VESSELS; Life-saving IN WATER; Equipment FOR Dwelling OR Working Under WATER; Means FOR Salvaging OR Searching FOR Underwater Objects 1

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Speedo International Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Speedo International Limited's lead technology class is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment), 30% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63B
Ranked #14,951 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Speedo International Limited against Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.9/100 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.