Where does Foundation Brakes France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Foundation Brakes France ranks #18,636 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 Foundation Brakes France hold?

Foundation Brakes France holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2024, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Foundation Brakes France's Innovation Score?

Foundation Brakes France has an Innovation Score of 30.2 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Foundation Brakes France focus on?

Foundation Brakes France's top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 11 patents, ranking #136 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Foundation Brakes France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Foundation Brakes France.

What does claim depth mean for Foundation Brakes France's patents?

Foundation Brakes France's patents average 11.5 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 Foundation Brakes France 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

Foundation Brakes France

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2024. 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Foundation ranks #18,636 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 5 technology areas.

#18,636
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.2/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18636 · Foreign Corporation #18,636 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,636/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Flaskworks
CPC-NARROW F16D · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2024 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Flaskworks, LLC (±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 Foundation’s 30.2 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 9.6 pts (32%) Velocity 5.8 pts (19%) Breadth 7.9 pts (26%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Foundation's Innovation Score is 30.2/100 (34th 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 Foundation?

Each dot is one of Foundation’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). Foundation’s own 11.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Foundation's grants concentrate

Foundation Brakes France is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 73.3% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Foundation sits between Flaskworks, LLC and FRX Polymers, Inc..

Foundation's three-year grant acceleration

Foundation Brakes France shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

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What this shows Foundation holds 15 patents at rank #18,620, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Foundation

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,620 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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

Foundation's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2024

Grants by year

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

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Foundation Brakes France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	7	46.7%
2021	1	6.7%
2022	3	20.0%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	3	20.0%

Which technologies does Foundation Brakes France patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 11

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 8

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 3

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Foundation Brakes France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Foundation Brakes France's lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 73.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #18,636 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Foundation Brakes France against Flaskworks, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.2/100 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.