Where does WLC Enterprises, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), WLC Enterprises, Inc. ranks #13,258 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 WLC Enterprises, Inc. hold?

WLC Enterprises, Inc. holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2022, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is WLC Enterprises, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

WLC Enterprises, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 30.9 out of 100 (top 64% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does WLC Enterprises, Inc. focus on?

WLC Enterprises, Inc.'s top technology area is F04D (NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS) with 12 patents. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is WLC Enterprises, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

WLC Enterprises, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +30% 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 WLC Enterprises, Inc.'s patents?

WLC Enterprises, Inc.'s patents average 9.3 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 WLC Enterprises, 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

WLC Enterprises, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2022. 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: F04D (NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, WLC ranks #13,258 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 15 technology areas.

#13,258
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 64%
by Innovation Score (30.9/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: +30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13258 · US Corporation #13,258 · 23 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,258/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Warner Electric Tech…
CPC-FOCUS F04D · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Warner Electric Technology Llc (±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
WLC Enterprises · this assignee

31
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows WLC Enterprises, Inc. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-UP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #13,258 of 50,000; Innovation Score 30.9/100 sits in the top 64% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Warner Electric Technology Llc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

WLC Enterprises, Inc. has been granted 23 US utility patents between 2018 and 2022, placing WLC Enterprises, Inc. at #13,258 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 15 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 9.3 claims per patent with primary concentration in F04D (NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS). As a US Corporation, WLC Enterprises, Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, WLC sits between Wavetamer Llc (23 patents, rank #13,243) and Westfalia-automotive Gmbh (23 patents, rank #13,251) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 30.9/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 13 grants, compared with 10 in the 2015–2019 window, a +30% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. WLC Enterprises, Inc.'s 9.3 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 15 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Wavetamer

23
Webasto Charging…

23
Wella Operations…

23
WIAB Water Innova…

23
WRH Walter Reist…

23
Warner Electric T…

23
Weifang Goertek M…

23
Westfalia-automot…

23
WLC Enterprises ◀

23

What this shows WLC holds 23 patents at rank #13,247, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near WLC

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,247 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps)

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

WLC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 Top 64% higher than 36% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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WLC Enterprises, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	4.3%
2019	9	39.1%
2020	6	26.1%
2021	5	21.7%
2022	2	8.7%

Which technologies does WLC Enterprises, Inc. patent most?

F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS 12

F21S - NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS 10

F21V - FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 10

F21Y - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED 10

F05D - INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS 6

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING 5

F21K - NON-ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES USING LUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING CHARGES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL; LIGHT SOURCES USING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AS LIGHT-GENERATING ELEMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 4

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 2

Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS 2

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 2

E04B - GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS 2

A01G - HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING 2

A01M - CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS ; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS 2

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 2

A61L - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,258

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.9 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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