Where does Firestone Building Products Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Firestone Building Products Company, LLC ranks #4,155 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 Firestone Building Products Company, LLC hold?

Firestone Building Products Company, LLC holds 86 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Firestone Building Products Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Firestone Building Products Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 44.6 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Firestone Building Products Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Firestone Building Products Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Firestone Building Products Company, LLC's patents?

Firestone Building Products Company, LLC's patents average 13.4 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 Firestone Building Products Company, LLC 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

Firestone Building Products Company, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Firestone Building Products Company, LLC focus on?

Firestone Building Products Company, LLC's top technology area is E04D (Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools) with 61 patents. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 86 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: E04D (Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Firestone ranks #4,155 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 86 patents across 34 technology areas.

#4,155
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.6/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4155 · US Corporation #4,155 · 86 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 86 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,155/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dali Systems
CPC-FOCUS E04D · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dali Systems 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Confluent · near

45
Firestone Building… · this assignee

45
Integrity Implants · near

45
THE Watt Stopper · near

45
Zipline International · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Firestone's Innovation Score is 44.6/100 (top 25% 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.

Where Firestone's grants concentrate

Firestone Building Products Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 70.9% of grants classified under E04D (Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Firestone sits between Dali Systems Co. Ltd and Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc..

Firestone's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Firestone Building Products Company, LLC moved from 38 to 3 grants (0.08x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Dali Systems

86
Esco Group

86
Eureka

86
Evernote

86
Gvbb Holdings R L

86
Genghiscomm Holdi…

86
Harnischfeger

86
Kyocera SLD Laser

86
Firestone Buildin… ◀

86

What this shows Firestone holds 86 patents at rank #4,155, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Firestone

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,155 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04D (Roof Coverings)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Firestone, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

THE Watt Stopper, Inc. 45 Integrity Implants Inc. 45 Zipline International Inc. 45 Confluent, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH 13.4 avg Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 13.4 avg HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg VueReal Inc. 13.4 avg

Firestone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Firestone Building Products Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	15.1%
2016	7	8.1%
2017	11	12.8%
2018	14	16.3%
2019	15	17.4%
2020	12	14.0%
2021	11	12.8%
2022	3	3.5%

Which technologies does Firestone Building Products Company, LLC patent most?

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 61

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 48

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 32

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 27

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 24

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 22

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 20

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 13

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 13

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 12

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 11

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 11

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 11

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 7

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,155

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Firestone Building Products Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Firestone Building Products Company, LLC's lead technology class is E04D (Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools), 70.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04D
Ranked #4,155 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Firestone Building Products Company, LLC against Dali Systems Co. Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.6/100 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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