Where does Winston Products LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Winston Products LLC ranks #4,313 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 Winston Products LLC hold?

Winston Products LLC holds 83 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Winston Products LLC's Innovation Score?

Winston Products LLC has an Innovation Score of 44.0 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Winston Products LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Winston Products LLC's recent grant velocity is -48% 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 Winston Products LLC's patents?

Winston Products LLC's patents average 7.1 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 Winston Products 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

Winston Products LLC

Q: What technology areas does Winston Products LLC focus on?

Winston Products LLC's top technology area is B60P (Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects) with 13 patents, ranking #29 of 616 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 83 granted patents across 24 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: B60P (Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Winston ranks #4,313 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 83 patents across 24 technology areas.

#4,313
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (44.0/100): 7.1
avg claims per patent: -48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4313 · US Corporation #4,313 · 83 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 83 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,313/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Theranos
CPC-FOCUS B60P · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Theranos, 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 Winston’s 44.0 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 15.3 pts (35%) Velocity 7.1 pts (16%) Breadth 17.3 pts (39%) Claim depth 4.3 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Innovative Timing… · near

44
Key Technology · near

44
Power Design · near

44
Winston Products · this assignee

44
Canon Denshi · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Winston's Innovation Score is 44.0/100 (top 27% 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 Winston?

Each dot is one of Winston’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). Winston’s own 7.1 claims/patent is at or below the 14.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Winston's grants concentrate

Winston Products LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 15.7% of grants classified under B60P (Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (14 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2020. By volume, Winston sits between Theranos, Inc. and Airoha Technology Corp..

Winston's three-year grant acceleration

Winston Products LLC shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Theranos

83
UIF (University I…

83
University OF Nor…

83
Vonage Business

83
Yellowpages COM

83
Winston Products ◀

83
Acucela

82
Appleton GRP

82
Airoha Technology

82

What this shows Winston holds 83 patents at rank #4,313, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Winston

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,313 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60P (Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Winston, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60P (Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport), Winston ranks #29 of 616 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Key Technology, Inc. 44 Innovative Timing Systems, LLC 44 Electronic Power Design, Inc. 44 Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.1 here).

DMG Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. 7.1 avg Digilock Asia Ltd 7.1 avg Globeride, Inc 7.1 avg KYB Corporation 7.1 avg

Winston's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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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Winston Products LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	14.5%
2016	7	8.4%
2017	10	12.0%
2018	14	16.9%
2019	7	8.4%
2020	4	4.8%
2021	5	6.0%
2022	4	4.8%
2023	6	7.2%
2024	7	8.4%
2025partial year	7	8.4%

Which technologies does Winston Products LLC patent most?

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B60D - Vehicle Connections 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

B25G - Handles FOR Hand Implements 3

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 3

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 3

B66D - CAPSTANS; WINCHES; Tackles, e.g. Pulley BLOCKS; Hoists 2

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

Top 15 of 24 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

Winston Products LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Winston Products LLC's lead technology class is B60P (Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects), 15.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60P
Ranked #4,313 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Winston Products LLC against Theranos, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.0/100 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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