Where does Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. ranks #9,035 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. hold?

Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Fontem Holdings 4 B.v.'s Innovation Score?

Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. has an Innovation Score of 33.5 out of 100 (top 55% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fontem Holdings 4 B.v.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fontem Holdings 4 B.v.'s recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Fontem Holdings 4 B.v.'s patents?

Fontem Holdings 4 B.v.'s patents average 14.6 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 Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. 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

Fontem Holdings 4 B.v.

Q: What technology areas does Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. focus on?

Fontem Holdings 4 B.v.'s top technology area is A24F (SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES) with 30 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 11 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: A24F (SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fontem ranks #9,035 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 11 technology areas.

#9,035
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 55%
by Innovation Score (33.5/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9035 · Foreign Corporation #9,035 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,035/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Envoy Medical
CPC-FOCUS A24F · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Envoy Medical 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Circulite · near

34
Fontem Holdings 4 B v · this assignee

34
Gift Card Impressions · near

34
Growpath · near

34
Tyco AMP · near

34
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-UP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #9,035 of 50,000; Innovation Score 33.5/100 sits in the top 55% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Envoy Medical Corporation (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. has been granted 35 US utility patents between 2015 and 2022, placing Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. at #9,035 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 11 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 14.6 claims per patent with primary concentration in A24F (SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES). As a Foreign Corporation, Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Fontem sits between Envoy Medical Corporation (35 patents, rank #9,028) and Fujifilm Wako Pure Chemical Corporation (35 patents, rank #9,036) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 33.5/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 20 grants, compared with 15 in the 2015–2019 window, a +33% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Fontem Holdings 4 B.v.'s 14.6 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 11 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Envoy Medical

35
Esko-graphics Ima…

35
Expectations

35
Expel

35
FORM Energy

35
Foshan Nationstar…

35
FPT Industrial S…

35
Fujifilm Wako Pur…

35
Fontem Holdings 4… ◀

35

What this shows Fontem holds 35 patents at rank #9,032, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fontem

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,032 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24F (Smokers' Requisites)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Growpath, Llc 34 Gift Card Impressions, Llc 34 Tyco Electronics AMP Gmbh 34 Circulite, Inc. 34

Fontem's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 Top 55% higher than 45% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.9%
2016	4	11.4%
2018	8	22.9%
2019	2	5.7%
2020	6	17.1%
2021	12	34.3%
2022	2	5.7%

Which technologies does Fontem Holdings 4 B.v. patent most?

A24F - SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES 30

H02J - CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY 17

B05B - SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES 10

H05B - ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL 4

A61M - DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR 3

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 1

G16H - HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA 1

A24B - MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF 1

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 1

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 1

G01F - MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,035

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

33.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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