Where does Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. ranks #1,513 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 Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. hold?

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. holds 275 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.4 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. focus on?

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.'s top technology area is A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear) with 36 patents, ranking #9 of 317 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +362% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.'s patents?

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.'s patents average 3.3 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 Wolverine Outdoors, 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

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 275 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wolverine ranks #1,513 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 275 patents across 16 technology areas.

#1,513
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.4/100): 3.3
avg claims per patent: +362%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1513 · US Corporation #1,513 · 275 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 275 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,513/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Peking University
CPC-FOCUS A43B · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +362% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Peking University (±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 Wolverine’s 45.4 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 19.4 pts (43%) Velocity 9.9 pts (22%) Breadth 14.1 pts (31%) Claim depth 2.0 pts (4%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hamilton Beach Brands · near

45
Lumens · near

45
Matterport · near

45
Motive Drilling · near

45
Wolverine Outdoors · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wolverine's Innovation Score is 45.4/100 (top 23% 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 Wolverine?

Each dot is one of Wolverine’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). Wolverine’s own 3.3 claims/patent is at or below the 12.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Wolverine's grants concentrate

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 13.1% of grants classified under A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (59 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2016. By volume, Wolverine sits between Peking University and Hollister Incorporated.

Wolverine's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. moved from 70 to 104 grants (1.49x 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 #464. See the growth leaderboard.

Peking University

275
Phillips 66

275
Unist(Ulsan Natio…

275
United States Gov…

275
Wolverine Outdoors ◀

275
Acronis Internati…

274
Cambria

274
Hexagon Technolog…

274
Hollister Incorpo…

274

What this shows Wolverine holds 275 patents at rank #1,513, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wolverine

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,513 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A43B (Characteristic Features OF Footwear)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wolverine, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A43B (Characteristic Features OF Footwear), Wolverine ranks #9 of 317 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. 45 Lumens Co., Ltd. 45 Matterport, Inc. 45 Motive Drilling Technologies, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (3.3 here).

NIO Nextev Limited 3.3 avg Berlin Packaging, LLC 3.2 avg Vitra Patente AG 3.2 avg Shenzhen Lanhe Technologies Co., Ltd. 3.4 avg

Wolverine's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	1.8%
2017	7	2.5%
2018	5	1.8%
2019	17	6.2%
2020	33	12.0%
2021	20	7.3%
2022	20	7.3%
2023	25	9.1%
2024	59	21.5%
2025partial year	84	30.5%

Which technologies does Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. patent most?

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 36

A43C - Fastenings OR Attachments OF FOOTWEAR; Laces IN General 11

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 7

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 4

A43D - Machines, Tools, Equipment OR Methods FOR Manufacturing OR Repairing Footwear 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B68G - Methods, Equipment, OR Machines FOR USE IN UPHOLSTERING; Upholstery NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C14B - Mechanical Treatment OR Processing OF Skins, Hides OR Leather IN GENERAL; Pelt-shearing MACHINES; Intestine-splitting Machines 1

D04B - Knitting 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.'s lead technology class is A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear), 13.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A43B
Ranked #1,513 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. against Peking University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.4/100 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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