Where does Swimc LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Swimc LLC ranks #1,944 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 Swimc LLC hold?

Swimc LLC holds 207 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Swimc LLC's Innovation Score?

Swimc LLC has an Innovation Score of 66.9 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Swimc LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Swimc LLC's recent grant velocity is +463% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Swimc LLC's patents?

Swimc LLC's patents average 17.6 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 Swimc 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

Swimc LLC

Q: What technology areas does Swimc LLC focus on?

Swimc LLC's top technology area is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor) with 131 patents, ranking #20 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 207 granted patents across 59 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Swimc ranks #1,944 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 207 patents across 59 technology areas.

#1,944
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.9/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: +463%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1944 · US Corporation #1,944 · 207 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 207 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,944/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Magna Closures
CPC-WIDE C09D · 59 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +463% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Magna Closures 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.

How Swimc’s 66.9 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 18.4 pts (28%) Velocity 12.9 pts (19%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Battelle Savannah… · near

67
Swimc · this assignee

67
Federal Express · near

67
Midea Group · near

67
Space Exploration · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Swimc's Innovation Score is 66.9/100 (top 1% 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 Swimc?

Each dot is one of Swimc’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). Swimc’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Swimc's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Swimc LLC received 135 grants versus 24 in 2015–2019 (+463% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 39 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 9. Lead class C09D accounts for 63.3% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Magna Closures Inc. (#1,940) and Victaulic Company (#1,948).

Swimc's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Swimc LLC moved from 51 to 99 grants (1.94x 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 #226. See the growth leaderboard.

Magna Closures

207
Safran Nacelles

207
Showa

207
Sintai Optical (S…

207
TDK

207
Transform SR Bran…

207
Tungaloy

207
Victaulic

207
Swimc ◀

207

What this shows Swimc holds 207 patents at rank #1,944, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Swimc

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,944 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Swimc, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Swimc ranks #20 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC 67 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 67 Midea Group Co., Ltd. 67 Federal Express Corporation 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Medtronic Xomed, Inc. 17.6 avg SMR Patents S.à.r.l. 17.6 avg Acclarent, Inc. 17.6 avg McMaster University 17.6 avg

Swimc's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Swimc LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	9	4.3%
2019	15	7.2%
2020	21	10.1%
2021	15	7.2%
2022	22	10.6%
2023	39	18.8%
2024	38	18.4%
2025partial year	48	23.2%

Which technologies does Swimc LLC patent most?

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 131

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 56

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 45

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 41

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 38

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 37

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 29

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

B44D - Painting OR Artistic Drawing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preserving PAINTINGS; Surface Treatment TO Obtain Special Artistic Surface Effects OR Finishes 11

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 9

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 8

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

Top 15 of 59 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

Swimc LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Swimc LLC's lead technology class is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi), 63.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #1,944 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Swimc LLC against Magna Closures Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.9/100 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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