Where does Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. ranks #4,543 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 Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. hold?

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. holds 78 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.6 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +18% 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 Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.'s patents?

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.'s patents average 15.5 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 Whelen Engineering Company, 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

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. focus on?

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.'s top technology area is B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General) with 29 patents, ranking #48 of 750 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 78 granted patents across 26 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: B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Whelen ranks #4,543 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 78 patents across 26 technology areas.

#4,543
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.6/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: +18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4543 · US Corporation #4,543 · 78 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 78 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,543/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH University of…
CPC-FOCUS B60Q · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: University of Louisiana at Lafayette (±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 Whelen’s 45.6 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 15.1 pts (33%) Velocity 3.1 pts (7%) Breadth 18.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chemocentryx · near

46
Control Components · near

46
Frank's International · near

46
HÜBNER & KG · near

46
Whelen Engineering · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Whelen's Innovation Score is 45.6/100 (top 23% 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 Whelen?

Each dot is one of Whelen’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). Whelen’s own 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Whelen's grants concentrate

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 37.2% of grants classified under B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (16 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, Whelen sits between University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC.

Whelen's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. moved from 36 to 17 grants (0.47x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

University of Lou…

78
Valtech Cardio

78
Vuereal

78
Watkins Manufactu…

78
Yanshan University

78
Whelen Engineering ◀

78
Arlington Industr…

77
AT&T Technical Se…

77
Augustine Biomedi…

77

What this shows Whelen holds 78 patents at rank #4,543, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Whelen

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,543 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Whelen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices), Whelen ranks #48 of 750 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Frank's International, LLC 46 Chemocentryx, Inc. 46 HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG 46 Control Components, Inc. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

Vactronix Scientific, LLC 15.5 avg AZ Electronic Materials (Luxembourg) S.A.R.L. 15.5 avg Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC 15.5 avg Snowie LLC 15.5 avg

Whelen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	6.4%
2016	8	10.3%
2017	4	5.1%
2018	4	5.1%
2019	13	16.7%
2020	16	20.5%
2021	7	9.0%
2022	7	9.0%
2023	3	3.8%
2024	7	9.0%
2025partial year	4	5.1%

Which technologies does Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. patent most?

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 29

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 27

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 23

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 22

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 19

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 11

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

Top 15 of 26 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

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General), 37.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60Q
Ranked #4,543 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. against University of Louisiana at Lafayette, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.6/100 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.

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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

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