Where does CGG Services SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CGG Services SAS ranks #1,353 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 CGG Services SAS hold?

CGG Services SAS holds 310 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is CGG Services SAS's Innovation Score?

CGG Services SAS has an Innovation Score of 55.5 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does CGG Services SAS focus on?

CGG Services SAS's top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 298 patents, ranking #5 of 835 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

Is CGG Services SAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CGG Services SAS's recent grant velocity is -72% 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 CGG Services SAS's patents?

CGG Services SAS's patents average 18.5 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 CGG Services SAS 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

CGG Services SAS

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 310 granted patents across 41 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, CGG ranks #1,353 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 310 patents across 41 technology areas.

#1,353
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.5/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1353 · Foreign Corporation #1,353 · 310 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 310 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,353/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cheil Industries
CPC-WIDE G01V · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cheil Industries 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 CGG’s 55.5 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 19.8 pts (36%) Velocity 2.0 pts (4%) Breadth 22.6 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Analogic · near

56
CGG Services SAS · this assignee

56
Conduent Business… · near

56
Fositek · near

56
Zeta Global · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows CGG's Innovation Score is 55.5/100 (top 7% 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 CGG?

Each dot is one of CGG’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). CGG’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where CGG's grants concentrate

CGG Services SAS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 96.1% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (68 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2015. By volume, CGG sits between Global Tel*Link Corporation and Daio Paper Corporation.

CGG's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, CGG Services SAS moved from 104 to 31 grants (0.30x 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 #2,999. See the growth leaderboard.

Global Tel*Link

312
Motional AD

312
Mitsubishi Heavy…

311
Marvell Israel (M…

311
Cheil Industries

310
Otter Products

310
CGG Services SAS ◀

310
Advanced Bionics

309
Daio Paper

309

What this shows CGG holds 310 patents at rank #1,353, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CGG

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,353 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CGG, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01V (Geophysics), CGG ranks #5 of 835 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Conduent Business Services, LLC 56 Analogic Corporation 56 Fositek Corporation 56 Zeta Global Corp. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

OneTrust, LLC 18.5 avg Rapid7, Inc. 18.5 avg Tencent America LLC 18.5 avg Seagate Technology LLC 18.5 avg

CGG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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CGG Services SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	1.6%
2016	58	18.7%
2017	62	20.0%
2018	45	14.5%
2019	68	21.9%
2020	25	8.1%
2021	11	3.5%
2022	16	5.2%
2023	8	2.6%
2024	7	2.3%
2025partial year	5	1.6%

Which technologies does CGG Services SAS patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 298

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 26

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 11

B63G - Offensive OR Defensive Arrangements ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; Aircraft Carriers 11

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 5

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

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 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

Top 15 of 41 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

CGG Services SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

CGG Services SAS's lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 96.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #1,353 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CGG Services SAS against Global Tel*Link Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.5/100 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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