Where does THE Timken Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), THE Timken Company ranks #5,893 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 Timken Company hold?

THE Timken Company holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is THE Timken Company's Innovation Score?

THE Timken Company has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is THE Timken Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

THE Timken Company's recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Timken Company's patents?

THE Timken Company'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 THE Timken Company 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 Timken Company

Q: What technology areas does THE Timken Company focus on?

THE Timken Company's top technology area is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings) with 28 patents, ranking #50 of 1,334 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 41 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: F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, THE ranks #5,893 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 41 technology areas.

#5,893
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5893 · US Corporation #5,893 · 58 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,893/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sony Europe
CPC-WIDE F16C · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sony Europe Limited (±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 52.9 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 14.1 pts (27%) Velocity 5.6 pts (11%) Breadth 22.6 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Horiba · near

53
KTM · near

53
THE Timken · this assignee

53
Universite de… · near

53
ViOptix · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows THE's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 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 Timken Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 48.3% of grants classified under F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (16 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, THE sits between Sony Europe Limited and TSI Group Co., Ltd..

THE's three-year grant acceleration

THE Timken Company shows 11 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.

Sony Europe

58
Speedtech Lights

58
Superior Essex In…

58
THE Queen's Unive…

58
Total Raffinage C…

58
TPR

58
Trinamix

58
TSI Group

58
THE Timken ◀

58

What this shows THE holds 58 patents at rank #5,892, 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 #5,892 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16C (Shafts)

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 F16C (Shafts), THE ranks #50 of 1,334 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

KTM AG 53 Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 53 ViOptix, Inc. 53 Horiba, Ltd. 53

Similar claim depth

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

Genia Technologies, Inc. 17.6 avg EchoStar UK Holdings Limited 17.6 avg Bambino Prezioso Switzerland 17.6 avg Avnera Corporation 17.6 avg

THE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 Timken Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	27.6%
2016	3	5.2%
2017	5	8.6%
2018	5	8.6%
2019	5	8.6%
2020	4	6.9%
2021	4	6.9%
2022	3	5.2%
2023	5	8.6%
2024	3	5.2%
2025partial year	5	8.6%

Which technologies does THE Timken Company patent most?

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 28

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 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 7

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

F03D - Wind Motors 4

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 3

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

Top 15 of 41 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

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THE Timken Company's lead technology class is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings), 48.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16C
Ranked #5,893 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare THE Timken Company against Sony Europe Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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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