Where does AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. ranks #23,805 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 AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. hold?

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.0 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +25% 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 AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.'s patents?

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.'s patents average 20.4 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 AGC Chemicals Americas, 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

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. focus on?

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.'s top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 5 patents, ranking #419 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 17 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, AGC ranks #23,805 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 17 technology areas.

#23,805
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (37.0/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23805 · US Corporation #23,805 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #23,805/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aeolus Robotics
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aeolus Robotics, 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 AGC’s 37.0 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 8.6 pts (23%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 14.6 pts (39%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AGC Chemicals Americas · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows AGC's Innovation Score is 37.0/100 (top 45% 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 AGC?

Each dot is one of AGC’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). AGC’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where AGC's grants concentrate

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, AGC sits between Aeolus Robotics, Inc. and AGS Company Automotive Solutions LLC.

AGC's three-year grant acceleration

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Aeolus Robotics

11
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11
Afros S P A

11
Agarik SAS

11
Agco

11
AGF Manufacturing

11
Agit Global IP Ho…

11
AGS Automotive So…

11
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11

What this shows AGC holds 11 patents at rank #23,777, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AGC

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,777 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

AGC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% 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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AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	9.1%
2016	1	9.1%
2017	2	18.2%
2020	2	18.2%
2021	2	18.2%
2024	1	9.1%
2025partial year	2	18.2%

Which technologies does AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 5

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 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

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

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

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

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 1

B66B - ELEVATORS; Escalators OR Moving Walkways 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

Top 15 of 17 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

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc.'s lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #23,805 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. against Aeolus Robotics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.0/100 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

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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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