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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Worthington Industries, Inc. ranks #7,964 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 Worthington Industries, Inc. hold?

Worthington Industries, Inc. holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 17 technology areas.

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

Worthington Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.9 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Worthington Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -36% 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 Worthington Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Worthington Industries, Inc.'s patents average 10.7 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 Worthington 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

Worthington Industries, Inc.

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

Worthington Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply ) with 15 patents, ranking #211 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Worthington ranks #7,964 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 17 technology areas.

#7,964
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.9/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: -36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7964 · US Corporation #7,964 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,964/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Volvo Group Canada
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Volvo Group Canada, 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 Worthington’s 35.9 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 12.9 pts (36%) Velocity 2.0 pts (6%) Breadth 14.6 pts (41%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alliance Fiber… · near

36
CI Systems (ISRAEL) · near

36
Lytro · near

36
Worthington Industries · this assignee

36
Mcginley Engineered… · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Worthington's Innovation Score is 35.9/100 (top 48% 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 Worthington?

Each dot is one of Worthington’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). Worthington’s own 10.7 claims/patent is at or below the 11.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Worthington's grants concentrate

Worthington Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 36.6% of grants classified under B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Worthington sits between Volvo Group Canada, Inc. and Abbvie Stemcentrx LLC.

Worthington's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Worthington Industries, Inc. moved from 23 to 7 grants (0.30x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Volvo Group Canada

41
WestfÄLische Wilh…

41
Wuhan Kaidi Engin…

41
Ward-kraft

41
Zhejiang Chint El…

41
Zafgen

41
Worthington Indus… ◀

41
2266170 Ontario

40
Abbvie Stemcentrx

40

What this shows Worthington holds 41 patents at rank #7,965, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Worthington

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,965 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Worthington, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Worthington ranks #211 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Lytro, Inc. 36 Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. 36 CI Systems (ISRAEL) Ltd. 36 Mcginley Engineered Solutions, LLC 36

Worthington's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Worthington Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	4.9%
2017	3	7.3%
2018	6	14.6%
2019	14	34.1%
2020	5	12.2%
2021	4	9.8%
2022	3	7.3%
2023	3	7.3%
2024	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Worthington Industries, Inc. patent most?

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 15

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 14

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 12

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

B01D - Separation 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

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

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 2

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Worthington Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Worthington Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb), 36.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #7,964 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Worthington Industries, Inc. against Volvo Group Canada, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.9/100 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.

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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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