Where does WHG Properties, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), WHG Properties, LLC ranks #1,835 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 WHG Properties, LLC hold?

WHG Properties, LLC holds 221 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is WHG Properties, LLC's Innovation Score?

WHG Properties, LLC has an Innovation Score of 40.2 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is WHG Properties, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

WHG Properties, LLC's recent grant velocity is -45% 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 WHG Properties, LLC's patents?

WHG Properties, LLC's patents average 8.0 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 WHG Properties, 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

WHG Properties, LLC

Q: What technology areas does WHG Properties, LLC focus on?

WHG Properties, LLC's top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 75 patents, ranking #4 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 221 granted patents across 15 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, WHG ranks #1,835 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 221 patents across 15 technology areas.

#1,835
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.2/100): 8.0
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1835 · US Corporation #1,835 · 221 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 221 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,835/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cohesity
CPC-FOCUS F41A · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 8.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cohesity, 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 WHG’s 40.2 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 18.7 pts (46%) Velocity 3.1 pts (8%) Breadth 13.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 4.8 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ipsen Biopharm · near

40
NETZSCH-Gerätebau · near

40
Showa Denko Packaging · near

40
Tearscience · near

40
WHG Properties · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows WHG's Innovation Score is 40.2/100 (top 36% 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 WHG?

Each dot is one of WHG’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). WHG’s own 8.0 claims/patent is at or below the 12.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where WHG's grants concentrate

WHG Properties, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 33.9% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (38 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2015. By volume, WHG sits between Cohesity, Inc. and UBE Industries, Ltd..

WHG's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, WHG Properties, LLC moved from 75 to 35 grants (0.47x 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 #2,769. See the growth leaderboard.

Cohesity

221
Royal Bank of Can…

221
Universite Claude…

221
Uipath

221
ebm-papst Mulfing…

221
WHG Properties ◀

221
Hosiden

220
Nidek

220
UBE Industries

220

What this shows WHG holds 221 patents at rank #1,834, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near WHG

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,834 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for WHG, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), WHG ranks #4 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Showa Denko Packaging Co., Ltd. 40 Ipsen Biopharm Limited 40 Tearscience, Inc. 40 NETZSCH-Gerätebau GmbH 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.0 here).

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC 8.0 avg Soochow University 8.0 avg Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd. 7.9 avg Amada Co., Ltd. 7.9 avg

WHG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% 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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WHG Properties, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	3.2%
2016	14	6.3%
2017	38	17.2%
2018	37	16.7%
2019	37	16.7%
2020	26	11.8%
2021	12	5.4%
2022	12	5.4%
2023	7	3.2%
2024	16	7.2%
2025partial year	15	6.8%

Which technologies does WHG Properties, LLC patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 75

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 15

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 11

B23H - Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 3

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B23C - Milling 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 1

B23B - TURNING; Boring 1

Top 15 of 15 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

WHG Properties, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

WHG Properties, LLC's lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 33.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #1,835 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare WHG Properties, LLC against Cohesity, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.2/100 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

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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