Where does Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company ranks #11,515 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 Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company hold?

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company's Innovation Score?

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company focus on?

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company's top technology area is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps) with 9 patents, ranking #180 of 1,034 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company's recent grant velocity is +633% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company's patents?

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company's patents average 7.3 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 Wayne/Scott Fetzer 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

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wayne/scott ranks #11,515 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 8 technology areas.

#11,515
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 7.3
avg claims per patent: +633%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11515 · US Corporation #11,515 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,515/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH VertiFlex
CPC-NARROW F04D · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +633% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: VertiFlex, 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 Wayne/scott’s 32.0 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 11.5 pts (36%) Velocity 6.1 pts (19%) Breadth 10.0 pts (31%) Claim depth 4.4 pts (14%)

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32
Wayne/Scott Fetzer · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wayne/scott's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th percentile 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 Wayne/scott?

Each dot is one of Wayne/scott’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). Wayne/scott’s own 7.3 claims/patent is at or below the 12.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Wayne/scott's grants concentrate

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Wayne/scott sits between VertiFlex, Inc. and Yokogawa Test & Measurement Corporation.

Wayne/scott's three-year grant acceleration

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

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Wayne/Scott Fetzer ◀

27

What this shows Wayne/Scott holds 27 patents at rank #11,511, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wayne/Scott

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,511 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Wayne/Scott's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wayne/Scott, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), Wayne/Scott ranks #180 of 1,034 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. 32 Pakal Technologies, Inc. 32 Sony Pictures Technologies, Inc. 32 Symphony Communication Services Holdings LLC 32

Wayne/scott's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.7%
2018	1	3.7%
2019	1	3.7%
2020	4	14.8%
2021	7	25.9%
2022	4	14.8%
2023	4	14.8%
2024	3	11.1%
2025partial year	2	7.4%

Which technologies does Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company patent most?

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 9

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 3

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 2

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 2

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 2

F23N - Regulating OR Controlling Combustion 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company's lead technology class is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04D
Ranked #11,515 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company against VertiFlex, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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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