Where does Weber Knapp Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Weber Knapp Company ranks #33,872 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 Weber Knapp Company hold?

Weber Knapp Company holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Weber Knapp Company's Innovation Score?

Weber Knapp Company has an Innovation Score of 26.7 out of 100 (21st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Weber Knapp Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Weber Knapp Company's recent grant velocity is +33% 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 Weber Knapp Company's patents?

Weber Knapp Company's patents average 12.6 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 Weber Knapp 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

Weber Knapp Company

Q: What technology areas does Weber Knapp Company focus on?

Weber Knapp Company's top technology area is E05Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof) with 5 patents, ranking #179 of 729 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: E05Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Detail).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Weber ranks #33,872 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 4 technology areas.

#33,872
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 21st percentile
by Innovation Score (26.7/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33872 · US Corporation #33,872 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #33,872/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Weatherchem
CPC-NARROW E05Y · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Weatherchem Corporation (±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 Weber’s 26.7 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 7.6 pts (28%) Velocity 4.4 pts (16%) Breadth 7.1 pts (27%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Weber Knapp · this assignee

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Weber's Innovation Score is 26.7/100 (21st 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 Weber?

Each dot is one of Weber’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). Weber’s own 12.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Weber's grants concentrate

Weber Knapp Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 62.5% of grants classified under E05Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Detail). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Weber sits between WeCool Toys Inc. and Western Industries, Inc..

Weber's three-year grant acceleration

Weber Knapp Company shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Wecool Toys

8
Wework Companies

8
Weatherchem

8
Webb Wheel Produc…

8
Weiler Engineering

8
Weldon Industries

8
Westech Engineeri…

8
Western Industries

8
Weber Knapp ◀

8

What this shows Weber holds 8 patents at rank #33,882, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Weber

By rank, the assignees closest to #33,882 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E05Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f)

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

Weber's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 21st percentile higher than 21% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Weber Knapp Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	25.0%
2019	1	12.5%
2020	1	12.5%
2021	1	12.5%
2023	1	12.5%
2024	1	12.5%
2025partial year	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Weber Knapp Company patent most?

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 5

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 5

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 4

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 3

Top 4 of 4 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

Weber Knapp Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Weber Knapp Company's lead technology class is E05Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Detail), 62.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E05Y
Ranked #33,872 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Weber Knapp Company against WeCool Toys Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 26.7/100 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

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