Where does Stahls' Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stahls' Inc. ranks #11,449 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 Stahls' Inc. hold?

Stahls' Inc. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Stahls' Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Stahls' Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.8 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Stahls' Inc. focus on?

Stahls' Inc.'s top technology area is B30B (Presses IN General) with 15 patents, ranking #11 of 360 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Stahls' Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stahls' Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +171% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Stahls' Inc.'s patents?

Stahls' Inc.'s patents average 13.6 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 Stahls' 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

Stahls' Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B30B (Presses IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stahls' ranks #11,449 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 18 technology areas.

#11,449
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.8/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: +171%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11449 · US Corporation #11,449 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,449/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sky CP
CPC-FOCUS B30B · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +171% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sky CP Limited (±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 Stahls'’s 39.8 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 11.5 pts (29%) Velocity 5.1 pts (13%) Breadth 15.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fonar · near

40
Orcan Energy · near

40
Solexel · near

40
Stahls' · this assignee

40
THE George Washingto… · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stahls''s Innovation Score is 39.8/100 (top 37% 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 Stahls'?

Each dot is one of Stahls'’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). Stahls'’s own 13.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Stahls''s grants concentrate

Stahls' Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under B30B (Presses IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Stahls' sits between Sky CP Limited and Swiss Timing Ltd.

Stahls''s three-year grant acceleration

Stahls' Inc. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Sky CP

27
Snik

27
Southern Imperial

27
Sparq Systems

27
Star Luminal

27
Sunedison

27
Suominen

27
Swiss Timing

27
Stahls' ◀

27

What this shows Stahls' holds 27 patents at rank #11,450, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stahls'

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,450 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B30B (Presses IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stahls', neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B30B (Presses IN General), Stahls' ranks #11 of 360 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

THE George Washington University, A Congressionally Chartered Not-for-profit Corporation 40 Solexel, Inc. 40 Orcan Energy AG 40 Fonar Corporation 40

Stahls''s Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Stahls' Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.7%
2017	1	3.7%
2018	1	3.7%
2019	4	14.8%
2020	5	18.5%
2021	4	14.8%
2023	6	22.2%
2024	4	14.8%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Stahls' Inc. patent most?

B30B - Presses IN General 15

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 15

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 5

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 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

A42C - Manufacturing OR Trimming Head Coverings, e.g. Hats 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 2

D06Q - Decorating Textiles 1

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Stahls' Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stahls' Inc.'s lead technology class is B30B (Presses IN General), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B30B
Ranked #11,449 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stahls' Inc. against Sky CP Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.8/100 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.