Where does Stolle Machinery Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stolle Machinery Company, LLC ranks #2,075 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 Stolle Machinery Company, LLC hold?

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC holds 191 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Stolle Machinery Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 55.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Stolle Machinery Company, LLC's patents?

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC's patents average 11.0 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 Stolle Machinery 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

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Stolle Machinery Company, LLC focus on?

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC's top technology area is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal) with 112 patents. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 191 granted patents across 49 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: B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stolle ranks #2,075 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 191 patents across 49 technology areas.

#2,075
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (55.9/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2075 · US Corporation #2,075 · 191 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 191 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,075/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Array BioPharma
CPC-WIDE B21D · 49 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Array BioPharma, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Imra America · near

56
Interface Technology… · near

56
Mattson Technology · near

56
Philips Lighting… · near

56
Stolle Machinery · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stolle's Innovation Score is 55.9/100 (top 6% 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 Stolle's grants concentrate

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 58.6% of grants classified under B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (28 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Stolle sits between Array BioPharma, Inc. and Elekta Limited.

Stolle's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Stolle Machinery Company, LLC moved from 67 to 64 grants (0.95x 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 #1,306. See the growth leaderboard.

Array Biopharma

191
Isco International

191
Nortonlifelock

191
Sanken Electric

191
THE Volcano

191
Stolle Machinery ◀

191
Autostore Technol…

190
Bissell Homecare

190
Elekta

190

What this shows Stolle holds 191 patents at rank #2,075, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stolle

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,075 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stolle, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd. 56 Mattson Technology, Inc. 56 Philips Lighting Holding B.V. 56 Imra America, Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.0 here).

Albea Services 11.0 avg Inserm (INSTITUT National DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA Recherche MÉDICALE) 11.0 avg Nicoventures Holdings Limited 11.0 avg Sotera Wireless, Inc. 11.0 avg

Stolle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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.

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Stolle Machinery Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	2.1%
2016	18	9.4%
2017	19	9.9%
2018	13	6.8%
2019	20	10.5%
2020	22	11.5%
2021	25	13.1%
2022	22	11.5%
2023	28	14.7%
2024	14	7.3%
2025partial year	6	3.1%

Which technologies does Stolle Machinery Company, LLC patent most?

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 112

B30B - Presses IN General 27

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 26

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 22

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 18

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

F16H - Gearing 9

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 7

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 6

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 6

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 6

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 5

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 5

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 4

Top 15 of 49 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,075

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC's lead technology class is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal), 58.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21D
Ranked #2,075 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stolle Machinery Company, LLC against Array BioPharma, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.9/100 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

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