Where does Wilton Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wilton Industries, Inc. ranks #25,549 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Wilton Industries, Inc. hold?

Wilton Industries, Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Wilton Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Wilton Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 28.6 out of 100 (top 72% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Wilton Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wilton Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Wilton Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Wilton Industries, Inc.'s patents average 9.8 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 Wilton Industries, 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

Wilton Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Wilton Industries, Inc. focus on?

Wilton Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is A21C (MACHINES OR EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING OR PROCESSING DOUGHS; HANDLING BAKED ARTICLES MADE FROM DOUGH) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: A21C (MACHINES OR EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING OR PROCESSING DOUGHS; HANDLING BAKED ARTICLES MADE FROM DOUGH).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wilton ranks #25,549 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 16 technology areas.

#25,549
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 72%
by Innovation Score (28.6/100): 9.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25549 · US Corporation #25,549 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,549/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH WELL BEING DIGITAL
CPC-FOCUS A21C · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: WELL Being Digital Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
G i VIEW · near

29
Fortus Medical · near

29
Pallmann Maschinenfa… · near

29
Trice Medical · near

29
Wilton Industries · this assignee

29
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Wilton's Innovation Score is 28.6/100 (top 72% 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.

Where Wilton's grants concentrate

Wilton Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 36.4% of grants classified under A21C (MACHINES OR EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING OR PROCESSING DOUGHS; HANDLING BAKED ARTICLES MADE FROM DOUGH). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Wilton sits between WELL Being Digital Limited and Woori FINE CHEM Co., Ltd..

WELL Being Digital

11
Wella Internation…

11
Whoborn

11
Wholeknit Interna…

11
Wirepas OY

11
Withsecure

11
Wolff Industries

11
Woori FINE CHEM

11
Wilton Industries ◀

11

What this shows Wilton holds 11 patents at rank #25,520, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wilton

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,520 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A21C (Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing Doughs)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wilton, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (29 here).

Fortus Medical, Inc. 29 Trice Medical, Inc. 29 Pallmann Maschinenfabrik Gmbh & Co. KG 29 G.i. VIEW Ltd. 29

Wilton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 Top 72% higher than 28% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Wilton Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	36.4%
2016	3	27.3%
2017	2	18.2%
2018	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Wilton Industries, Inc. patent most?

A21C - MACHINES OR EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING OR PROCESSING DOUGHS; HANDLING BAKED ARTICLES MADE FROM DOUGH 4

A47J - KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES 2

A47G - HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT 2

A23G - COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF 2

F16M - FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS 1

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE 1

B65D - CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES 1

B05C - APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL 1

B67B - APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS 1

A47F - SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS 1

B26B - HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS 1

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

B26D - CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING 1

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,549

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

28.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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