Where does US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army ranks #6,723 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army's recent grant velocity is +1400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army's patents?

US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army's patents average 13.8 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Federal Government

US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army

Q: How many patents does US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army hold?

US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 81 technology areas.

Q: What is US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army's Innovation Score?

US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Q: How is the US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army 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 PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 81 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, US ranks #6,723 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 81 technology areas.

#6,723
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: +1400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6723 · US Federal Government #6,723 · 50 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,723/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tangible Play
CPC-WIDE A41D · 81 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USGOV US Federal Gov
VEL-SURGE +1400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tangible Play, 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 US’s 50.5 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 13.6 pts (27%) Velocity 3.7 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (49%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dehn SE · near

51
Liqui-Box · near

51
University College… · near

51
US Government AS… · this assignee

51
Weka IO · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows US's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 US?

Each dot is one of US’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). US’s own 13.8 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How US's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army received 45 grants versus 3 in 2015–2019 (+1400% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 22 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 3. Lead class A41D accounts for 18% of the portfolio across 81 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Trisa Holding AG (#6,716) and Withings (#6,724).

US's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army moved from 31 to 17 grants (0.55x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Trisa Holding

50
Tangible Play

50
The Strategic Coa…

50
Thermochem Recove…

50
Unilin Bvba

50
Valmet

50
W C Bradley

50
Withings

50
US Government AS… ◀

50

What this shows US holds 50 patents at rank #6,720, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near US

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,720 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A41D (Outerwear)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for US, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A41D (Outerwear), US ranks #45 of 582 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Liqui-Box Corporation 51 University College Cardiff Consultants Limited 51 Weka.IO Ltd. 51 Dehn SE 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.8 here).

KAO Germany GMBH 13.8 avg Praxair Technology, Inc. 13.8 avg eYs3D Microelectronics, Co. 13.8 avg ZF Automotive UK Limited 13.8 avg

US's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	6.0%
2020	6	12.0%
2021	22	44.0%
2022	8	16.0%
2023	5	10.0%
2024	4	8.0%
2025partial year	2	4.0%

Which technologies does US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army patent most?

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 9

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 5

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 5

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 5

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 4

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

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 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 3

Top 15 of 81 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army's lead technology class is A41D (OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories), 18% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A41D
Ranked #6,723 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare US Government AS Represented BY THE Secretary OF THE Army against Trisa Holding AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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

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.