Where does Wenger Manufacturing Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wenger Manufacturing Inc. ranks #9,163 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 Wenger Manufacturing Inc. hold?

Wenger Manufacturing Inc. holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Wenger Manufacturing Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Wenger Manufacturing Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.2 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Wenger Manufacturing Inc. focus on?

Wenger Manufacturing Inc.'s top technology area is A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass) with 25 patents, ranking #3 of 308 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Wenger Manufacturing Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wenger Manufacturing Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -68% 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 Wenger Manufacturing Inc.'s patents?

Wenger Manufacturing Inc.'s patents average 14.5 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 Wenger Manufacturing Inc. 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

Wenger Manufacturing Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 21 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: A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wenger ranks #9,163 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 21 technology areas.

#9,163
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.2/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9163 · US Corporation #9,163 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,163/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Volkswagen Group of…
CPC-FOCUS A23P · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Volkswagen Group of America Investments, LLC (±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 Wenger’s 39.2 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 12.4 pts (32%) Velocity 1.9 pts (5%) Breadth 16.2 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Daewoong Pharmaceuti… · near

39
EcoFasten Solar · near

39
IMDB COM · near

39
Racepoint Energy · near

39
Wenger Manufacturing · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wenger's Innovation Score is 39.2/100 (top 39% 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 Wenger?

Each dot is one of Wenger’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). Wenger’s own 14.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Wenger's grants concentrate

Wenger Manufacturing Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Wenger sits between Volkswagen Group of America Investments, LLC and Zenithen USA, LLC.

Wenger's three-year grant acceleration

Wenger Manufacturing Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Volkswagen Group…

35
Wisol

35
Woobo Tech

35
WWW Trustscience…

35
Whitestar Communi…

35
Wipotec

35
Zama Japan

35
Zenithen USA

35
Wenger Manufactur… ◀

35

What this shows Wenger holds 35 patents at rank #9,164, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wenger

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,164 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wenger, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs), Wenger ranks #3 of 308 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

IMDB.COM, Inc. 39 EcoFasten Solar, LLC 39 Racepoint Energy, LLC 39 Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 39

Wenger's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% 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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Wenger Manufacturing Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	14.3%
2016	3	8.6%
2017	8	22.9%
2018	8	22.9%
2019	1	2.9%
2020	4	11.4%
2021	2	5.7%
2022	2	5.7%
2025partial year	2	5.7%

Which technologies does Wenger Manufacturing Inc. patent most?

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 25

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 20

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 18

A23K - Fodder 17

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 16

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 12

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 12

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 8

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 7

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 6

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 4

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 3

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 3

Top 15 of 21 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

Wenger Manufacturing Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wenger Manufacturing Inc.'s lead technology class is A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23P
Ranked #9,163 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wenger Manufacturing Inc. against Volkswagen Group of America Investments, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.2/100 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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