Where does Fontaine Holdings NV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fontaine Holdings NV ranks #26,323 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 Fontaine Holdings NV hold?

Fontaine Holdings NV holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2023, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Fontaine Holdings NV's Innovation Score?

Fontaine Holdings NV has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fontaine Holdings NV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fontaine Holdings NV's recent grant velocity is +800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fontaine Holdings NV's patents?

Fontaine Holdings NV's patents average 14.7 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 Fontaine Holdings NV 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

Fontaine Holdings NV

Q: What technology areas does Fontaine Holdings NV focus on?

Fontaine Holdings NV's top technology area is 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) with 10 patents, ranking #255 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2023. 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: 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 Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fontaine ranks #26,323 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 13 technology areas.

#26,323
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26323 · Foreign Corporation #26,323 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,323/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Flomatic
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Flomatic Corporation (±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 Fontaine’s 34.3 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 8.3 pts (24%) Velocity 4.4 pts (13%) Breadth 12.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carter Fuel Systems · near

34
DGS Global Systems · near

34
Fontaine Holdings · this assignee

34
Kingfa SCI & Tech · near

34
Montres Tudor · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fontaine's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (47th percentile 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 Fontaine?

Each dot is one of Fontaine’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). Fontaine’s own 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fontaine's grants concentrate

Fontaine Holdings NV is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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 Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Fontaine sits between Flomatic Corporation and Founder Apabi Technology Limited.

Fontaine's three-year grant acceleration

Fontaine Holdings NV shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Flomatic

10
Fluid-o-tech S R L

10
FMC Separation Sy…

10
FMH Conveyors

10
Forel S P A

10
Foshan Carro Elec…

10
Foshan Samyoo

10
Founder Apabi Tec…

10
Fontaine Holdings ◀

10

What this shows Fontaine holds 10 patents at rank #26,298, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fontaine

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,298 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fontaine, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), Fontaine ranks #255 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Carter Fuel Systems, LLC 34 Kingfa SCI. & Tech. Co., Ltd. 34 DGS Global Systems, Inc. 34 Montres Tudor SA 34

Fontaine's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2023

Grants by year

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

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Fontaine Holdings NV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	10.0%
2020	3	30.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2022	2	20.0%
2023	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Fontaine Holdings NV patent most?

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 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

C23G - Cleaning OR De-greasing OF Metallic Material BY Chemical Methods Other Than Electrolysis 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

C22C - Alloys 2

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 1

F23N - Regulating OR Controlling Combustion 1

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Fontaine Holdings NV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fontaine Holdings NV's lead technology class is 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 Evap), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #26,323 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fontaine Holdings NV against Flomatic Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.3/100 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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