Where does Blancpain SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Blancpain SA ranks #4,752 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 Blancpain SA hold?

Blancpain SA holds 73 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Blancpain SA's Innovation Score?

Blancpain SA has an Innovation Score of 52.7 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Blancpain SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Blancpain SA's recent grant velocity is -6% 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 Blancpain SA's patents?

Blancpain SA's patents average 14.2 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 Blancpain SA 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 Foreign Corporation

Blancpain SA

Q: What technology areas does Blancpain SA focus on?

Blancpain SA's top technology area is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars) with 66 patents, ranking #8 of 92 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 73 granted patents across 19 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: G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Blancpain ranks #4,752 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 73 patents across 19 technology areas.

#4,752
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.7/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4752 · Foreign Corporation #4,752 · 73 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 73 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,752/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Actelion Pharmaceuti…
CPC-FOCUS G04B · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (±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 Blancpain’s 52.7 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 14.9 pts (28%) Velocity 13.9 pts (26%) Breadth 15.4 pts (29%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Futaba · near

53
Blancpain · this assignee

53
Duracell U S… · near

53
Innoviz · near

53
MAN Truck &Bus · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Blancpain's Innovation Score is 52.7/100 (top 10% 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 Blancpain?

Each dot is one of Blancpain’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). Blancpain’s own 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Blancpain's grants concentrate

Blancpain SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 90.4% of grants classified under G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Blancpain sits between Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd. and Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha.

Blancpain's three-year grant acceleration

Blancpain SA shows 23 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Yachiyo Industry

74
Zound Industries…

74
Aware

73
Actelion Pharmace…

73
Bitsight

73
C&D Zodiac

73
C & E Fein

73
Canon Denshi

73
Blancpain ◀

73

What this shows Blancpain holds 73 patents at rank #4,751, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Blancpain

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,751 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Blancpain, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches), Blancpain ranks #8 of 92 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Duracell U.S. Operations, Inc. 53 MAN Truck &Bus AG 53 Innoviz Technologies Ltd. 53 Futaba Corporation 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co., Ltd. 14.2 avg Tele Tracking Technologies, Inc. 14.2 avg Mstar Semiconductor, Inc. 14.2 avg Texas Instruments Deutschland GMBH 14.2 avg

Blancpain's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Blancpain SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	16.4%
2016	7	9.6%
2017	3	4.1%
2018	4	5.5%
2019	5	6.8%
2020	4	5.5%
2021	2	2.7%
2022	6	8.2%
2023	10	13.7%
2024	7	9.6%
2025partial year	13	17.8%

Which technologies does Blancpain SA patent most?

G04B - Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars 66

G04D - Apparatus OR Tools Specially Designed FOR Making OR Maintaining Clocks OR Watches 6

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

G10F - Automatic Musical Instruments 5

G04F - Time-interval Measuring 5

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

G04G - Electronic Time-pieces 2

G04C - Electromechanical Clocks OR Watches 2

B63C - Launching, Hauling-out, OR Dry-docking OF VESSELS; Life-saving IN WATER; Equipment FOR Dwelling OR Working Under WATER; Means FOR Salvaging OR Searching FOR Underwater Objects 1

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

C22C - Alloys 1

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Blancpain SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Blancpain SA's lead technology class is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars), 90.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G04B
Ranked #4,752 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Blancpain SA against Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.7/100 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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