Where does Summit Glove Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Summit Glove Inc. ranks #6,956 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 Summit Glove Inc. hold?

Summit Glove Inc. holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Summit Glove Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Summit Glove Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.6 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Summit Glove Inc. focus on?

Summit Glove Inc.'s top technology area is A41D (OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories) with 38 patents, ranking #6 of 582 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

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

Summit Glove Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +322% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Summit Glove Inc.'s patents average 16.2 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 Summit Glove 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

Summit Glove Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 10 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: A41D (OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Summit ranks #6,956 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 10 technology areas.

#6,956
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.6/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +322%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6956 · US Corporation #6,956 · 48 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,956/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SanDisk Enterprise IP
CPC-FOCUS A41D · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +322% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SanDisk Enterprise IP LLC (±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 Summit’s 37.6 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 13.4 pts (36%) Velocity 3.2 pts (9%) Breadth 11.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cosmo · near

38
Exemplis · near

38
ShenZhen Goldsun… · near

38
Shoretel · near

38
Summit Glove · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Summit's Innovation Score is 37.6/100 (top 43% 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 Summit?

Each dot is one of Summit’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). Summit’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Summit's grants concentrate

Summit Glove Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 79.2% of grants classified under A41D (OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Summit sits between Screen Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd. and Seek Thermal, Inc..

Summit's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Summit Glove Inc. moved from 27 to 13 grants (0.48x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Screen Semiconduc…

48
Semisilicon Techn…

48
Skyworks Global P…

48
Spinal Generations

48
Sungkyunkwan Univ…

48
Sandisk Enterpris…

48
Saudi Aramco

48
Seek Thermal

48
Summit Glove ◀

48

What this shows Summit holds 48 patents at rank #6,949, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Summit

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,949 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A41D (Outerwear)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Summit, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A41D (Outerwear), Summit ranks #6 of 582 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Shoretel, Inc. 38 Cosmo Technologies Ltd. 38 Exemplis LLC 38 ShenZhen Goldsun Network Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. 38

Summit's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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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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Summit Glove Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	4.2%
2017	1	2.1%
2018	4	8.3%
2019	2	4.2%
2020	15	31.3%
2021	10	20.8%
2022	1	2.1%
2023	4	8.3%
2024	8	16.7%
2025partial year	1	2.1%

Which technologies does Summit Glove Inc. patent most?

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 38

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 9

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 4

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 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

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

Summit Glove Inc.'s lead technology class is A41D (OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories), 79.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A41D
Ranked #6,956 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Summit Glove Inc. against Screen Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.6/100 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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