Where does AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. ranks #3,994 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 Flat Glass North America, Inc. hold?

AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. holds 90 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -15% 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 AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.'s patents?

AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.'s patents average 26.3 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 AGC Flat Glass North America, 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 Flat Glass North America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. focus on?

AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.'s top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 24 patents, ranking #167 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 90 granted patents across 37 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, AGC ranks #3,994 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 90 patents across 37 technology areas.

#3,994
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.2/100): 26.3
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3994 · US Corporation #3,994 · 90 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 90 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,994/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arizona Board OF…
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arizona Board OF Regents, A Body Corporate OF THE State OF Arizona Acting FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State 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 AGC’s 57.2 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 15.6 pts (27%) Velocity 5.1 pts (9%) Breadth 21.5 pts (38%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AGC Flat Glass… · this assignee

57
Beijing Huamei · near

57
Idexx Laboratories · near

57
Leica Biosystems… · near

57
Mainstream Engineering · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows AGC's Innovation Score is 57.2/100 (top 5% 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 26.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 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 Flat Glass North America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 26.7% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (14 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, AGC sits between Transitions Optical, Ltd. and Black Sesame Technologies Inc..

AGC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. moved from 30 to 23 grants (0.77x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Transitions Optic…

91
Treace Medical Co…

91
University of Man…

91
Whirlpool

91
Arizona Board OF…

90
Arktura

90
Bwxt mpower

90
Black Sesame

90
AGC Flat Glass No… ◀

90

What this shows AGC holds 90 patents at rank #3,994, 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 #3,994 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for AGC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B32B (Layered Products), AGC ranks #167 of 3,088 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Idexx Laboratories Inc. 57 Mainstream Engineering Corporation 57 Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH 57 Beijing Huamei, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (26.3 here).

Nanotek Instruments Group, LLC 26.3 avg Tactual Labs Co. 26.4 avg Ultravision Technologies, LLC 26.4 avg Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc. 26.4 avg

AGC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 Flat Glass North America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.4%
2016	12	13.3%
2017	9	10.0%
2018	7	7.8%
2019	14	15.6%
2020	12	13.3%
2021	4	4.4%
2022	7	7.8%
2023	3	3.3%
2024	13	14.4%
2025partial year	5	5.6%

Which technologies does AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 24

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 23

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 18

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 16

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 12

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 11

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 11

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 5

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 4

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

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 3

Top 15 of 37 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 Flat Glass North America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.'s lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 26.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #3,994 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. against Transitions Optical, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.2/100 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

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