Where does CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation ranks #7,389 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 CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation hold?

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation's Innovation Score?

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation has an Innovation Score of 43.4 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation's recent grant velocity is +800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation's patents?

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation's patents average 12.7 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 CertainTeed Ceilings 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation

Q: What technology areas does CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation focus on?

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation's top technology area is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings) with 28 patents, ranking #19 of 849 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Certainteed ranks #7,389 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 10 technology areas.

#7,389
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.4/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7389 · US Corporation #7,389 · 44 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,389/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cattron North America
CPC-FOCUS E04B · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cattron North America, 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 Certainteed’s 43.4 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 13.1 pts (30%) Velocity 11.4 pts (26%) Breadth 11.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CertainTeed Ceilings · this assignee

43
Dongwoon Anatech · near

43
Nippon Closures · near

43
Pure Fishing · near

43
The Ames Companies · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Certainteed's Innovation Score is 43.4/100 (top 28% 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 Certainteed?

Each dot is one of Certainteed’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). Certainteed’s own 12.7 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Certainteed's grants concentrate

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Certainteed sits between Coretech System Co., Ltd. and Dali Wireless, Inc..

Certainteed's three-year grant acceleration

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation shows 24 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Coretech System

44
Cattron North Ame…

44
Celera

44
Celgene CAR

44
Commscope Connect…

44
Compugen

44
Corel

44
Dali Wireless

44
Certainteed Ceili… ◀

44

What this shows CertainTeed holds 44 patents at rank #7,391, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CertainTeed

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,391 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04B (General Building Constructions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CertainTeed, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E04B (General Building Constructions), CertainTeed ranks #19 of 849 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

The Ames Companies, Inc. 43 Pure Fishing, Inc. 43 Nippon Closures Co., Ltd 43 Dongwoon Anatech Co., Ltd. 43

Certainteed's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	4.5%
2019	2	4.5%
2020	7	15.9%
2021	5	11.4%
2022	9	20.5%
2023	3	6.8%
2024	12	27.3%
2025partial year	4	9.1%

Which technologies does CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation patent most?

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 28

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 5

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 5

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 4

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 4

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 2

B27N - Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

Top 10 of 10 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

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation's lead technology class is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04B
Ranked #7,389 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation against Coretech System Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.4/100 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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