Where does Capsugel Belgium NV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Capsugel Belgium NV ranks #5,351 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 Capsugel Belgium NV hold?

Capsugel Belgium NV holds 64 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Capsugel Belgium NV's Innovation Score?

Capsugel Belgium NV has an Innovation Score of 50.2 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Capsugel Belgium NV focus on?

Capsugel Belgium NV's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 53 patents, ranking #403 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is Capsugel Belgium NV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Capsugel Belgium NV's recent grant velocity is +35% 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 Capsugel Belgium NV's patents?

Capsugel Belgium NV's patents average 15.6 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 Capsugel Belgium NV 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

Capsugel Belgium NV

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 64 granted patents across 36 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Capsugel ranks #5,351 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 64 patents across 36 technology areas.

#5,351
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.2/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: +35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5351 · Foreign Corporation #5,351 · 64 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 64 grants
UPPER-Q #5,351/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Xiaomi…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., 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 Capsugel’s 50.2 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 14.4 pts (29%) Velocity 5.2 pts (10%) Breadth 21.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Capsugel Belgium · this assignee

50
Huizhou Kimree… · near

50
Nanoco · near

50
Thoratec · near

50
Toyo Aluminium · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Capsugel's Innovation Score is 50.2/100 (top 13% 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 Capsugel?

Each dot is one of Capsugel’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). Capsugel’s own 15.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Capsugel's grants concentrate

Capsugel Belgium NV is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 82.8% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Capsugel sits between Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., Ltd. and Dowa Metaltech Co., Ltd..

Capsugel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Capsugel Belgium NV moved from 23 to 18 grants (0.78x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Beijing Xiaomi Pi…

64
Bradley

64
Calamp

64
Canopy Growth

64
Continental Auton…

64
D2S

64
Detnet South Afri…

64
Dowa Metaltech

64
Capsugel Belgium ◀

64

What this shows Capsugel holds 64 patents at rank #5,351, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Capsugel

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,351 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Capsugel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Capsugel ranks #403 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Thoratec Corporation 50 Nanoco Technologies, Ltd. 50 Toyo Aluminium Kabushiki Kaisha 50 Huizhou Kimree Technology Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Branch 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

Indian Motorcycle International, LLC 15.6 avg INSTITUCIÓ Catalana DE Recerca I Estudis Avancats 15.6 avg N.V. Nutricia 15.6 avg Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. 15.6 avg

Capsugel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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.

View data table

Capsugel Belgium NV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	6.3%
2016	3	4.7%
2017	6	9.4%
2018	7	10.9%
2019	6	9.4%
2020	16	25.0%
2021	1	1.6%
2022	6	9.4%
2023	4	6.3%
2024	8	12.5%
2025partial year	3	4.7%

Which technologies does Capsugel Belgium NV patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 53

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 22

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 11

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 10

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 8

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 6

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 6

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 6

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 3

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

Top 15 of 36 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

Capsugel Belgium NV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Capsugel Belgium NV's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 82.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #5,351 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Capsugel Belgium NV against Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.2/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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