Where does Wd-40 Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wd-40 Company ranks #38,287 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 Wd-40 Company hold?

Wd-40 Company holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Wd-40 Company's Innovation Score?

Wd-40 Company has an Innovation Score of 18.7 out of 100 (5th 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 Wd-40 Company focus on?

Wd-40 Company's top technology area is B05B (Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles) with 2 patents. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

Is Wd-40 Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wd-40 Company's recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Wd-40 Company's patents?

Wd-40 Company's patents average 10.9 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 Wd-40 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

Wd-40 Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: B05B (Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wd-40 ranks #38,287 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 2 technology areas.

#38,287
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 5th percentile
by Innovation Score (18.7/100): 10.9
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R38287 · US Corporation #38,287 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #38,287/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Waveform
CPC-NARROW B05B · 2 areas
INNOV-LOW 18.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Waveform Technologies, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agro Selections Fruits · near

19
Wd-40 · this assignee

19
Pomona Ricerca S R L · near

19
Presidio Pharmaceuti… · near

19
Pierpoint · near

19
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wd-40's Innovation Score is 18.7/100 (5th 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.

Where Wd-40's grants concentrate

Wd-40 Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 28.6% of grants classified under B05B (Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Wd-40 sits between Waveform Technologies, Inc. and Weebly, Inc..

Waveform

7
Waveguide

7
Wayport

7
WBV Weisenburger…

7
Webtuner

7
Wedgelock Equipme…

7
Wedi

7
Weebly

7
Wd-40 ◀

7

What this shows Wd-40 holds 7 patents at rank #38,249, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wd-40

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,249 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B05B (Spraying Apparatus)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Wd-40's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wd-40, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (19 here).

Pomona Ricerca S.R.L. 19 Agro Selections Fruits 19 Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 19 Pierpoint, Inc. 19

Wd-40's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

19 5th percentile higher than 5% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Wd-40 Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	14.3%
2018	2	28.6%
2019	2	28.6%
2020	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Wd-40 Company patent most?

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#38,287

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

18.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Wd-40 Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wd-40 Company's lead technology class is B05B (Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles), 28.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B05B
Ranked #38,287 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wd-40 Company against Waveform Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 18.7/100 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.