Where does Yorktown Technologies, L.P. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Yorktown Technologies, L.P. ranks #25,585 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 Yorktown Technologies, L.P. hold?

Yorktown Technologies, L.P. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Yorktown Technologies, L.P.'s Innovation Score?

Yorktown Technologies, L.P. has an Innovation Score of 31.4 out of 100 (38th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Yorktown Technologies, L.P.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Yorktown Technologies, L.P.'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 Yorktown Technologies, L.P.'s patents?

Yorktown Technologies, L.P.'s patents average 21.3 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 Yorktown Technologies, L.P. 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

Yorktown Technologies, L.P.

Q: What technology areas does Yorktown Technologies, L.P. focus on?

Yorktown Technologies, L.P.'s top technology area is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals) with 11 patents, ranking #85 of 1,035 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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: A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yorktown ranks #25,585 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 8 technology areas.

#25,585
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.4/100): 21.3
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25585 · US Corporation #25,585 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,585/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH XinThera
CPC-NARROW A01K · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: XinThera, 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 Yorktown’s 31.4 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 8.6 pts (27%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 12.8 pts (41%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Yorktown · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Yorktown's Innovation Score is 31.4/100 (38th percentile 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 Yorktown?

Each dot is one of Yorktown’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). Yorktown’s own 21.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Yorktown's grants concentrate

Yorktown Technologies, L.P. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Yorktown sits between XinThera, Inc. and Z & J Technologies GmbH.

Xinthera

11
Xtreme Manufactur…

11
YEU Chyuan Indust…

11
YKK of America

11
Yuken Industry

11
York (Wuxi) Air C…

11
York Guangzhou Ai…

11
Z & J

11
Yorktown ◀

11

What this shows Yorktown holds 11 patents at rank #25,567, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Yorktown

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,567 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01K (Animal Husbandry)

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

Yorktown's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 38th percentile higher than 38% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

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

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Yorktown Technologies, L.P. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2016	9	81.8%

Which technologies does Yorktown Technologies, L.P. patent most?

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 11

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 5

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

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 2

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 2

C07K - Peptides 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

Top 8 of 8 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

Yorktown Technologies, L.P.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Yorktown Technologies, L.P.'s lead technology class is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01K
Ranked #25,585 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Yorktown Technologies, L.P. against XinThera, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.4/100 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

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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

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