Where does Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust ranks #21,835 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust hold?

Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust's Innovation Score?

Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust has an Innovation Score of 44.1 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust focus on?

Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust's top technology area is G07F (COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust.

What does claim depth mean for Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust's patents?

Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust's patents average 3.7 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 Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust 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

Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: G07F (COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stephen ranks #21,835 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 13 technology areas.

#21,835
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.1/100): 3.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21835 · US Corporation #21,835 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,835/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Sports Art Industrial
CPC-FOCUS G07F · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sports Art Industrial 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Stephen P Shoemaker… · this assignee

44
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Stephen's Innovation Score is 44.1/100 (top 26% 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.

Where Stephen's grants concentrate

Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 38.5% of grants classified under G07F (COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Stephen sits between Sports Art Industrial Co., Ltd. and Strathspey Crown Llc.

Sports Art Indust…

13
Sprue Safety Prod…

13
Stefanplast S P A

13
Steffes

13
Stokely-van Camp

13
Strata Safety Pro…

13
Stratatech

13
Strathspey Crown

13
Stephen P Shoemak… ◀

13

What this shows Stephen holds 13 patents at rank #21,845, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stephen

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,845 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07F (Coin-freed OR LIKE Apparatus)

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

Stephen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	15.4%
2022	5	38.5%
2023	3	23.1%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	2	15.4%

Which technologies does Stephen P. Shoemaker Trust patent most?

G07F - COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS 5

A63F - CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 5

A01M - CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS ; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS 4

F16B - DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING 2

A47G - HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT 1

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 1

A61M - DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR 1

G06K - GRAPHICAL DATA READING ; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS 1

F16H - GEARING 1

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 1

B65G - TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,835

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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