Where does ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse ranks #1,392 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 ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse hold?

ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse holds 302 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 77 technology areas.

What is ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse's Innovation Score?

ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse has an Innovation Score of 64.1 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse's patents?

ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse's patents average 14.4 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 ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse 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

ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse

Q: What technology areas does ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse focus on?

ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse'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 231 patents, ranking #2 of 92 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 77 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 302 granted patents across 77 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, ETA ranks #1,392 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 302 patents across 77 technology areas.

#1,392
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.1/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1392 · Foreign Corporation #1,392 · 302 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 302 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,392/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Assistance PUBLIQUE—…
CPC-WIDE G04B · 77 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Assistance PUBLIQUE—HÔPITAUX DE Paris (APHP) (±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 ETA’s 64.1 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 19.7 pts (31%) Velocity 10.7 pts (17%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Inventio · near

64
Keysight · near

64
ETA Manufacture… · this assignee

64
Fingerprint Cards… · near

64
Sabic Global B V · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ETA's Innovation Score is 64.1/100 (top 2% 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 ETA?

Each dot is one of ETA’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). ETA’s own 14.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How ETA's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse received 127 grants versus 149 in 2015–2019 (-15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 40 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 11. Lead class G04B accounts for 76.5% of the portfolio across 77 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Assistance PUBLIQUE—HÔPITAUX DE Paris (APHP) (#1,388) and Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC (#1,396).

ETA's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse moved from 58 to 93 grants (1.60x 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 #377. See the growth leaderboard.

Assistance Publiq…

302
Beijing Didi Infi…

302
Briggs & Stratton

302
Daiichi Sankyo

302
Hitachi Industria…

302
Hall Labs

302
Neoperl

302
Owens Corning Int…

302
ETA Manufacture H… ◀

302

What this shows ETA holds 302 patents at rank #1,392, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ETA

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,392 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ETA, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches), ETA ranks #2 of 92 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Sabic Global Technologies B.V. 64 Fingerprint Cards Anacatum IP AB 64 Keysight Technologies, Inc. 64 Inventio AG 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.4 here).

Hangzhou Sanhua Research Institute Co., Ltd. 14.4 avg Shandong NEW Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd. 14.4 avg Wright Medical Technology, Inc. 14.4 avg Sanechips Technology Co., Ltd. 14.4 avg

ETA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	9.9%
2016	40	13.2%
2017	23	7.6%
2018	32	10.6%
2019	24	7.9%
2020	11	3.6%
2021	23	7.6%
2022	29	9.6%
2023	32	10.6%
2024	32	10.6%
2025partial year	26	8.6%

Which technologies does ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse 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 231

G04C - Electromechanical Clocks OR Watches 93

G04G - Electronic Time-pieces 57

G04D - Apparatus OR Tools Specially Designed FOR Making OR Maintaining Clocks OR Watches 38

G04R - Radio-controlled Time-pieces 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

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 9

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 8

G04F - Time-interval Measuring 7

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 5

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 5

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Top 15 of 77 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

ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse'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), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G04B
Ranked #1,392 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ETA SA Manufacture HORLOGÈRE Suisse against Assistance PUBLIQUE—HÔPITAUX DE Paris (APHP), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.1/100 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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