Where does Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc ranks #19,350 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 Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc hold?

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc's Innovation Score?

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc has an Innovation Score of 22.0 out of 100 (9th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc's patents?

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc's patents average 7.7 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 Wilson's Gun Shop, 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

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc

Q: What technology areas does Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc focus on?

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc'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 6 patents, ranking #106 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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, Wilson's ranks #19,350 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 3 technology areas.

#19,350
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 9th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.0/100): 7.7
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19350 · US Corporation #19,350 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,350/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Westblock Systems
CPC-NARROW F41A · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Westblock Systems, 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 Wilson's’s 22.0 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 9.6 pts (44%) Velocity 1.7 pts (8%) Breadth 6.1 pts (28%) Claim depth 4.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wilson's Gun Shop · this assignee

22
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wilson's's Innovation Score is 22.0/100 (9th percentile 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 Wilson's?

Each dot is one of Wilson's’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). Wilson's’s own 7.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 4.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Wilson's's grants concentrate

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 40% 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 2019 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Wilson's sits between Westblock Systems, Inc. and World Products, Inc..

Wilson's's three-year grant acceleration

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Westblock Systems

15
Westfield Outdoor

15
Whirley Industries

15
Whitefox

15
Wimo Labs

15
Wingbo Imports

15
Wintershall Holdi…

15
World Products

15
Wilson's Gun Shop ◀

15

What this shows Wilson's holds 15 patents at rank #19,345, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wilson's

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,345 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Wilson's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 9th percentile higher than 9% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	9	60.0%
2020	2	13.3%
2021	1	6.7%
2022	1	6.7%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 6

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 2

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 2

Top 3 of 3 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

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc's lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #19,350 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc against Westblock Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.0/100 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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