Where does Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. ranks #4,691 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 Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. hold?

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. holds 75 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.3 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -49% 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 Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s patents?

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s patents average 23.1 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 Sturm, Ruger & Company, 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

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. focus on?

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 58 patents, ranking #6 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 75 granted patents across 5 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sturm ranks #4,691 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 75 patents across 5 technology areas.

#4,691
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 23.1
avg claims per patent: -49%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4691 · US Corporation #4,691 · 75 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 75 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,691/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shoei
CPC-NARROW F41A · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -49% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shoei 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 Sturm’s 39.3 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 15.0 pts (38%) Velocity 2.6 pts (7%) Breadth 7.9 pts (20%) Claim depth 13.8 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Acres Technology · near

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Celltrion · near

39
Chrysler Group · near

39
Sturm Ruger & · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sturm's Innovation Score is 39.3/100 (top 39% 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 Sturm?

Each dot is one of Sturm’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). Sturm’s own 23.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sturm's grants concentrate

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 77.3% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Sturm sits between Shoei Co., Ltd. and Think Surgical, Inc..

Sturm's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. moved from 26 to 10 grants (0.39x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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Think Surgical

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What this shows Sturm holds 75 patents at rank #4,691, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sturm

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,691 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sturm, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), Sturm ranks #6 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Acres Technology 39 Chrysler Group LLC 39 Celltrion Inc. 39 Arizona Board OF Regents, Acting FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State University 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.1 here).

Cymer, LLC 23.1 avg Pensando Systems Inc. 23.1 avg Qumulo, Inc. 23.1 avg Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. 23.1 avg

Sturm's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% 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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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	9.3%
2016	12	16.0%
2017	9	12.0%
2018	7	9.3%
2019	12	16.0%
2020	8	10.7%
2021	6	8.0%
2022	4	5.3%
2023	5	6.7%
2024	1	1.3%
2025partial year	4	5.3%

Which technologies does Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 58

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 77.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #4,691 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. against Shoei Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.3/100 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.

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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

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