Where does Weber-Stephen Products LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Weber-Stephen Products LLC ranks #1,957 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-Stephen Products LLC hold?

Weber-Stephen Products LLC holds 206 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Weber-Stephen Products LLC's Innovation Score?

Weber-Stephen Products LLC has an Innovation Score of 55.5 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Weber-Stephen Products LLC focus on?

Weber-Stephen Products LLC's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 78 patents, ranking #11 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

Is Weber-Stephen Products LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Weber-Stephen Products LLC's recent grant velocity is +77% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Weber-Stephen Products LLC's patents?

Weber-Stephen Products LLC's patents average 7.9 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 Weber-Stephen Products LLC 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-Stephen Products LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 206 granted patents across 37 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Weber-stephen ranks #1,957 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 206 patents across 37 technology areas.

#1,957
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.5/100): 7.9
avg claims per patent: +77%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1957 · US Corporation #1,957 · 206 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 206 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,957/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nissan Chemical
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +77% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nissan Chemical 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-stephen’s 55.5 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 18.4 pts (33%) Velocity 10.9 pts (20%) Breadth 21.5 pts (39%) Claim depth 4.7 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mercari · near

56
Metal Industries… · near

56
Nankai University · near

56
Weber-Stephen Products · this assignee

56
China University OF… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Weber-stephen's Innovation Score is 55.5/100 (top 7% 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-stephen?

Each dot is one of Weber-stephen’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-stephen’s own 7.9 claims/patent is at or below the 18.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Weber-stephen's grants concentrate

Weber-Stephen Products LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 37.9% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (43 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2015. By volume, Weber-stephen sits between Nissan Chemical Corporation and Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd..

Weber-stephen's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Weber-Stephen Products LLC moved from 52 to 85 grants (1.64x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #357. See the growth leaderboard.

Nissan Chemical

206
Noble Systems

206
Novellus Systems

206
Renishaw

206
Yanmar Power Tech…

206
Weber-stephen Pro… ◀

206
Asml Holding

205
Airbnb

205
Beijing Voyager T…

205

What this shows Weber-Stephen holds 206 patents at rank #1,957, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Weber-Stephen

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,957 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Weber-Stephen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Weber-Stephen ranks #11 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Metal Industries Research & Development Centre 56 Nankai University 56 Mercari, Inc. 56 China University OF Petroleum (EAST CHINA) 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.9 here).

Coway Co., Ltd. 7.9 avg Hyundai Dymos Incorporated 7.9 avg Energizer Brands, LLC 7.9 avg Canva Pty Ltd 7.9 avg

Weber-stephen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Weber-Stephen Products LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	2.4%
2016	12	5.8%
2017	31	15.0%
2018	12	5.8%
2019	11	5.3%
2020	14	6.8%
2021	27	13.1%
2022	43	20.9%
2023	21	10.2%
2024	21	10.2%
2025partial year	9	4.4%

Which technologies does Weber-Stephen Products LLC patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 78

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 19

F23N - Regulating OR Controlling Combustion 19

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 14

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 13

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 12

F24B - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges FOR Solid Fuels ; Implements FOR USE IN Connection With Stoves OR Ranges 12

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 10

H04Q - Selecting 10

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 9

F23G - Cremation FURNACES; Consuming Waste Products BY Combustion 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

F23B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Only Solid Fuel 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

F23D - Burners 8

Top 15 of 37 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-Stephen Products LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Weber-Stephen Products LLC's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 37.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #1,957 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Weber-Stephen Products LLC against Nissan Chemical Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.5/100 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

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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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