Where does The Patent Well LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Patent Well LLC ranks #10,788 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 Patent Well LLC hold?

The Patent Well LLC holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is The Patent Well LLC's Innovation Score?

The Patent Well LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.1 out of 100 (top 15% 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 Patent Well LLC focus on?

The Patent Well LLC's top technology area is F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings) with 24 patents, ranking #29 of 753 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Is The Patent Well LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Patent Well LLC's recent grant velocity is +23% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for The Patent Well LLC's patents?

The Patent Well LLC's patents average 22.0 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 The Patent Well 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 Patent Well LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #10,788 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 32 technology areas.

#10,788
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.1/100): 22.0
avg claims per patent: +23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10788 · US Corporation #10,788 · 29 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,788/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Taikisha
CPC-FOCUS F16J · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Taikisha 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 The’s 49.1 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 11.7 pts (24%) Velocity 4.1 pts (8%) Breadth 20.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 13.2 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Verisilicon… · near

49
Emerging Automotive · near

49
Fluid Quip · near

49
Silicon Storage… · near

49
The Patent Well · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 49.1/100 (top 15% 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 22.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The Patent Well LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 82.8% of grants classified under F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, The sits between Taikisha Ltd. and Tipper Tie, Inc..

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Patent Well LLC shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Taikisha

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Technical Consume…

29
Telair Internatio…

29
Tenstorrent

29
The Procter & Gam…

29
The Q

29
The Ridge Wallet

29
Tipper Tie

29
The Patent Well ◀

29

What this shows The holds 29 patents at rank #10,794, 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 #10,794 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16J (Pistons)

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 F16J (Pistons), The ranks #29 of 753 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC 49 Emerging Automotive, LLC 49 Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. 49 Verisilicon Microelectronics (SHANGHAI) Co., Ltd. 49

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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The Patent Well LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.4%
2017	4	13.8%
2018	3	10.3%
2019	5	17.2%
2020	6	20.7%
2021	2	6.9%
2022	2	6.9%
2023	2	6.9%
2024	4	13.8%

Which technologies does The Patent Well LLC patent most?

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 24

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 18

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 10

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 10

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

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 8

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 7

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 7

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 5

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 5

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 4

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

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 4

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 4

Top 15 of 32 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 Patent Well LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Patent Well LLC's lead technology class is F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings), 82.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16J
Ranked #10,788 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Patent Well LLC against Taikisha Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.1/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.