Where does Williams-Sonoma, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Williams-Sonoma, Inc. ranks #1,738 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 Williams-Sonoma, Inc. hold?

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. holds 235 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Williams-Sonoma, Inc. focus on?

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s top technology area is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish) with 3 patents, ranking #64 of 119 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +35% 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 Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s patents?

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s patents average 1.4 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 Williams-Sonoma, 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

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 235 granted patents across 12 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: A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Williams-sonoma ranks #1,738 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 235 patents across 12 technology areas.

#1,738
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 1.4
avg claims per patent: +35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1738 · US Corporation #1,738 · 235 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 235 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,738/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AGC Glass Europe
CPC-FOCUS A22C · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AGC Glass Europe (±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 Williams-sonoma’s 38.3 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 18.9 pts (49%) Velocity 6.4 pts (17%) Breadth 12.2 pts (32%) Claim depth 0.8 pts (2%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Audinate Holdings Pty · near

38
HSNi · near

38
In2Bones USA · near

38
Meta View · near

38
Williams-Sonoma · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Williams-sonoma's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Williams-sonoma?

Each dot is one of Williams-sonoma’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). Williams-sonoma’s own 1.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Williams-sonoma's grants concentrate

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 1.3% of grants classified under A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (34 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Williams-sonoma sits between AGC Glass Europe and Alstom Transport Technologies.

Williams-sonoma's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. moved from 72 to 69 grants (0.96x 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 #1,298. See the growth leaderboard.

AGC Glass Europe

235
Brigham Young Uni…

235
Consejo Superior…

235
Tessera

235
Yoshino Kogyosho

235
Williams-sonoma ◀

235
JX Nippon Oil & E…

234
Saudi Basic Indus…

234
Alstom Transport

233

What this shows Williams-Sonoma holds 235 patents at rank #1,738, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Williams-Sonoma

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,738 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A22C (Processing Meat)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Williams-Sonoma's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Williams-Sonoma, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A22C (Processing Meat), Williams-Sonoma ranks #64 of 119 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

In2Bones USA, LLC 38 HSNi, LLC 38 Meta View, Inc. 38 Audinate Holdings Pty Limited 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.4 here).

Aukey Technology Co., Ltd 1.4 avg Tenga Co., Ltd. 1.4 avg Louis Vuitton Malletier 1.4 avg O2cool, LLC 1.3 avg

Williams-sonoma's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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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Williams-Sonoma, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	1.3%
2017	23	9.8%
2018	33	14.0%
2019	26	11.1%
2020	33	14.0%
2021	13	5.5%
2022	11	4.7%
2023	34	14.5%
2024	24	10.2%
2025partial year	35	14.9%

Which technologies does Williams-Sonoma, Inc. patent most?

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 3

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 3

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 2

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 2

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 2

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

A63D - Bowling Games, e.g. Skittles, Bocce OR BOWLS; Installations THEREFOR; Bagatelle OR Similar GAMES; Billiards 1

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 1

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.'s lead technology class is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish), 1.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A22C
Ranked #1,738 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Williams-Sonoma, Inc. against AGC Glass Europe, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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.