Where does FN Herstal S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FN Herstal S.A. ranks #10,028 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 FN Herstal S.A. hold?

FN Herstal S.A. holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is FN Herstal S.A.'s Innovation Score?

FN Herstal S.A. has an Innovation Score of 36.9 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is FN Herstal S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FN Herstal S.A.'s recent grant velocity is +138% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for FN Herstal S.A.'s patents?

FN Herstal S.A.'s patents average 10.5 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 FN Herstal S.A. 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

FN Herstal S.A.

Q: What technology areas does FN Herstal S.A. focus on?

FN Herstal S.A.'s top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 19 patents, ranking #20 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 9 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, FN ranks #10,028 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 9 technology areas.

#10,028
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.9/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: +138%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10028 · Foreign Corporation #10,028 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,028/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Envision Aesc…
CPC-NARROW F41A · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +138% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Envision Aesc Energy Devices 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.

How FN’s 36.9 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 12.0 pts (33%) Velocity 8.0 pts (22%) Breadth 10.6 pts (29%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dexin · near

37
FN Herstal · this assignee

37
Leica Microsystems… · near

37
Wilkins IP · near

37
Isara · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows FN's Innovation Score is 36.9/100 (top 45% 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 FN?

Each dot is one of FN’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). FN’s own 10.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where FN's grants concentrate

FN Herstal S.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 61.3% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, FN sits between Envision Aesc Energy Devices Ltd. and FedEx Supply Chain Logistics & Electronics, Inc..

FN's three-year grant acceleration

FN Herstal S.A. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Envision Aesc Ene…

31
Epitopix

31
Exacta-frac Energ…

31
Excelliance MOS

31
Fondazione Teleth…

31
Franka Emika

31
Furukawa Magnet W…

31
Fedex Supply Chai…

31
FN Herstal ◀

31

What this shows FN holds 31 patents at rank #10,026, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FN

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,026 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FN, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), FN ranks #20 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Leica Microsystems Ltd., Shanghai 37 Dexin Electronic Ltd. 37 Wilkins IP, LLC 37 Isara Corporation 37

FN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% 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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FN Herstal S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.2%
2018	4	12.9%
2019	3	9.7%
2021	7	22.6%
2022	5	16.1%
2023	1	3.2%
2024	6	19.4%
2025partial year	4	12.9%

Which technologies does FN Herstal S.A. patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 19

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 7

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 5

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 2

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

C22C - Alloys 1

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 1

F41F - Apparatus FOR Launching Projectiles OR Missiles From Barrels, e.g. Cannons ; Launchers FOR Rockets OR TORPEDOES; Harpoon Guns 1

Top 9 of 9 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

FN Herstal S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FN Herstal S.A.'s lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 61.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #10,028 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FN Herstal S.A. against Envision Aesc Energy Devices Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.9/100 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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