Where does Wedgelock Equipment Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wedgelock Equipment Limited ranks #38,290 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 Wedgelock Equipment Limited hold?

Wedgelock Equipment Limited holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Wedgelock Equipment Limited's Innovation Score?

Wedgelock Equipment Limited has an Innovation Score of 43.1 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Wedgelock Equipment Limited focus on?

Wedgelock Equipment Limited's top technology area is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting) with 7 patents, ranking #85 of 348 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

Is Wedgelock Equipment Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Wedgelock Equipment Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Wedgelock Equipment Limited's patents?

Wedgelock Equipment Limited's patents average 18.3 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 Wedgelock Equipment Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Wedgelock Equipment Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wedgelock ranks #38,290 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 2 technology areas.

#38,290
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.1/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R38290 · Foreign Corporation #38,290 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #38,290/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Wayport
CPC-NARROW E02F · 2 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Wayport, 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 Wedgelock’s 43.1 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 7.2 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (46%) Breadth 5.0 pts (12%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wedgelock Equipment · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wedgelock's Innovation Score is 43.1/100 (top 29% 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 Wedgelock?

Each dot is one of Wedgelock’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). Wedgelock’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Wedgelock's grants concentrate

Wedgelock Equipment Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Wedgelock sits between Wayport, Inc. and Welco Co., Ltd..

Wedgelock's three-year grant acceleration

Wedgelock Equipment Limited shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Wayport

7
WBV Weisenburger…

7
Wd-40

7
Webtuner

7
Wedi

7
Weebly

7
Weinmann Emergenc…

7
Welco

7
Wedgelock Equipme… ◀

7

What this shows Wedgelock holds 7 patents at rank #38,251, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wedgelock

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,251 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E02F (Dredging)

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

Wedgelock's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Wedgelock Equipment Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	14.3%
2023	3	42.9%
2024	1	14.3%
2025partial year	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Wedgelock Equipment Limited patent most?

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 7

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 2

Top 2 of 2 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

Wedgelock Equipment Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wedgelock Equipment Limited's lead technology class is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E02F
Ranked #38,290 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wedgelock Equipment Limited against Wayport, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.1/100 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.