Where does The Maitland Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Maitland Company, LLC ranks #20,518 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 The Maitland Company, LLC hold?

The Maitland Company, LLC holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is The Maitland Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

The Maitland Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.5 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does The Maitland Company, LLC focus on?

The Maitland Company, LLC's top technology area is B09B (Disposal OF Solid Waste NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 9 patents, ranking #6 of 170 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is The Maitland Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Maitland Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is -82% 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 The Maitland Company, LLC's patents?

The Maitland Company, LLC's patents average 13.7 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 The Maitland 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

The Maitland Company, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 17 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: B09B (Disposal OF Solid Waste NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #20,518 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 17 technology areas.

#20,518
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.5/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: -82%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20518 · US Corporation #20,518 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,518/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The BIG O
CPC-FOCUS B09B · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -82% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The BIG O, 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 The’s 45.5 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 9.4 pts (21%) Velocity 13.3 pts (29%) Breadth 14.6 pts (32%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Otto Egelhof & KG · near

46
Bestop · near

45
Etak Systems · near

45
Orbis · near

45
The Maitland · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 45.5/100 (top 23% 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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 13.7 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The Maitland Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 64.3% of grants classified under B09B (Disposal OF Solid Waste NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, The sits between The BIG O, LLC and The Southern Company.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Maitland Company, LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

The BIG O

14
The Crawford Group

14
The Curotto-can

14
The Foundation fo…

14
The Nielson (US)

14
The Research Foun…

14
The Rocket Scienc…

14
The Southern

14
The Maitland ◀

14

What this shows The holds 14 patents at rank #20,536, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,536 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B09B (Disposal OF Solid Waste)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B09B (Disposal OF Solid Waste), The ranks #6 of 170 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Orbis Corporation 45 Etak Systems, LLC 45 Bestop, Inc. 45 Otto Egelhof GmbH & Co. KG 46

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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The Maitland Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	42.9%
2016	2	14.3%
2017	3	21.4%
2023	1	7.1%
2024	1	7.1%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does The Maitland Company, LLC patent most?

B09B - Disposal OF Solid Waste NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 9

F23G - Cremation FURNACES; Consuming Waste Products BY Combustion 9

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 8

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 8

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 8

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 8

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

Top 15 of 17 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

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

The Maitland Company, LLC's lead technology class is B09B (Disposal OF Solid Waste NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 64.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B09B
Ranked #20,518 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Maitland Company, LLC against The BIG O, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.5/100 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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