Where does Building Materials Investment Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Building Materials Investment Corporation ranks #2,574 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 Building Materials Investment Corporation hold?

Building Materials Investment Corporation holds 151 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 54 technology areas.

What is Building Materials Investment Corporation's Innovation Score?

Building Materials Investment Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.9 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Building Materials Investment Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Building Materials Investment Corporation's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Building Materials Investment Corporation's patents?

Building Materials Investment Corporation's patents average 10.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Building Materials Investment Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Building Materials Investment Corporation focus on?

Building Materials Investment Corporation's top technology area is E04D (Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools) with 65 patents. Grants appear in 54 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Building Materials Investment Corporation 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 PatentsView assignee record - 151 granted patents across 54 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: E04D (Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Building ranks #2,574 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 151 patents across 54 technology areas.

#2,574
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.9/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2574 · US Corporation #2,574 · 151 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 151 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,574/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Neuromodula…
CPC-WIDE E04D · 54 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Building Materials… · this assignee

49
InterDigital… · near

49
Resonant · near

49
Sirius XM Radio · near

49
Array BioPharma · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Building's Innovation Score is 48.9/100 (top 16% 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.

How Building's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Building Materials Investment Corporation received 34 grants versus 117 in 2015–2019 (-71% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 55 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 3. Lead class E04D accounts for 43% of the portfolio across 54 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Amada Co., Ltd. (#2,570) and Pusan National University Industry-university Cooperation Foundation (#2,578).

Building's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Building Materials Investment Corporation moved from 43 to 3 grants (0.07x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,207. See the growth leaderboard.

Amada

151
AMS Sensors Singa…

151
Asia Optical

151
Advanced Neuromod…

151
LSI

151
Lotte Advanced Ma…

151
Nihon Dempa Kogyo

151
Pusan National Un…

151
Building Material… ◀

151

What this shows Building holds 151 patents at rank #2,574, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Building

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,574 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04D (Roof Coverings)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Building, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Resonant Inc. 49 Sirius XM Radio Inc. 49 InterDigital Technology Corporation 49 Array BioPharma, Inc. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.2 here).

Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd. 10.2 avg Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH 10.2 avg Bridgestone Bandag, LLC 10.2 avg ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG 10.2 avg

Building's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Building Materials Investment Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	10.6%
2016	55	36.4%
2017	15	9.9%
2018	19	12.6%
2019	12	7.9%
2020	13	8.6%
2021	18	11.9%
2022	3	2.0%

Which technologies does Building Materials Investment Corporation patent most?

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 65

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 19

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 18

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 16

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 15

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 14

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 12

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 9

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 9

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 7

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 6

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 6

E01C - Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair 5

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 4

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 4

Top 15 of 54 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,574

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

48.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Building Materials Investment Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Building Materials Investment Corporation's lead technology class is E04D (Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools), 43% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04D
Ranked #2,574 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Building Materials Investment Corporation against Amada Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.9/100 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.

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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