Where does Face International Corporaton rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Face International Corporaton ranks #5,940 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 Face International Corporaton hold?

Face International Corporaton holds 57 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Face International Corporaton's Innovation Score?

Face International Corporaton has an Innovation Score of 50.5 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 Face International Corporaton focus on?

Face International Corporaton's top technology area is H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 26 patents, ranking #73 of 891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Face International Corporaton's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Face International Corporaton's recent grant velocity is +153% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Face International Corporaton's patents?

Face International Corporaton's patents average 17.4 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 Face International Corporaton 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

Face International Corporaton

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 57 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Face ranks #5,940 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 57 patents across 29 technology areas.

#5,940
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +153%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5940 · US Corporation #5,940 · 57 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 57 grants
UPPER-Q #5,940/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Edan Instruments
CPC-FOCUS H10N · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +153% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Edan Instruments, 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 Face’s 50.5 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 14.0 pts (28%) Velocity 7.0 pts (14%) Breadth 19.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China Unionpay · near

51
Diehl Aerospace · near

51
Face International… · this assignee

51
Heptagon Micro… · near

51
Tata Steel · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Face's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (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 Face?

Each dot is one of Face’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). Face’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Face's grants concentrate

Face International Corporaton is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 45.6% of grants classified under H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Face sits between Edan Instruments, Inc. and Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG.

Face's three-year grant acceleration

Face International Corporaton shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Edan Instruments

57
Etel

57
Efficient Power C…

57
Eyelock

57
Fivetech Technolo…

57
Flexterra

57
Forschungsverbund…

57
Franz Haimer Masc…

57
Face Internationa… ◀

57

What this shows Face holds 57 patents at rank #5,938, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Face

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,938 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Face, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices), Face ranks #73 of 891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Diehl Aerospace GmbH 51 Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. Ltd. 51 China Unionpay Co., Ltd. 51 Tata Steel Limited 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

The University of Birmingham 17.4 avg Sphero, Inc. 17.4 avg Trumpf Laser- UND Systemtechnik GMBH 17.4 avg Evalve, Inc. 17.4 avg

Face's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 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 · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Face International Corporaton patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	5	8.8%
2018	9	15.8%
2019	1	1.8%
2020	11	19.3%
2021	7	12.3%
2022	6	10.5%
2023	3	5.3%
2024	11	19.3%
2025partial year	4	7.0%

Which technologies does Face International Corporaton patent most?

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 26

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 25

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 25

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 23

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 21

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 18

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 12

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 12

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 9

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 9

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 7

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 7

Top 15 of 29 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Face International Corporaton's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Face International Corporaton's lead technology class is H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 45.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10N
Ranked #5,940 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Face International Corporaton against Edan Instruments, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.