Where does FPInnovations rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FPInnovations ranks #7,696 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 FPInnovations hold?

FPInnovations holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 60 technology areas.

What is FPInnovations's Innovation Score?

FPInnovations has an Innovation Score of 59.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is FPInnovations's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FPInnovations's recent grant velocity is -67% 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 FPInnovations's patents?

FPInnovations's patents average 13.9 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 FPInnovations 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

FPInnovations

Q: What technology areas does FPInnovations focus on?

FPInnovations's top technology area is D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor) with 9 patents, ranking #22 of 161 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 60 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 60 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fpinnovations ranks #7,696 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 60 technology areas.

#7,696
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7696 · Foreign Corporation #7,696 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,696/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Energy and Environme…
CPC-WIDE D21C · 60 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (±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 Fpinnovations’s 59.7 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 13.0 pts (22%) Velocity 13.3 pts (22%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Assa Abloy Americas… · near

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China Tobacco Hunan… · near

60
East China Jiaotong… · near

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FPInnovations · this assignee

60
Holcim Technology · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fpinnovations's Innovation Score is 59.7/100 (top 4% 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 Fpinnovations?

Each dot is one of Fpinnovations’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). Fpinnovations’s own 13.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Fpinnovations's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, FPInnovations received 10 grants versus 30 in 2015–2019 (-67% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 10 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 2. Lead class D21C accounts for 21.4% of the portfolio across 60 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (#7,691) and Geka GmbH (#7,699).

Fpinnovations's three-year grant acceleration

FPInnovations shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Energy and Enviro…

42
Ethernovia

42
Expression Pathol…

42
Fiserv

42
Fuji Shoji

42
Fisher & Incorpor…

42
Garuda Technology

42
Geka

42
Fpinnovations ◀

42

What this shows FPInnovations holds 42 patents at rank #7,695, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FPInnovations

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,695 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substan…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FPInnovations, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substan…), FPInnovations ranks #22 of 161 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

China Tobacco Hunan Industrial Co., Ltd. 60 East China Jiaotong University 60 Holcim Technology Ltd 60 Assa Abloy Americas Residential Inc. 60

Fpinnovations's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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FPInnovations patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	14.3%
2016	8	19.0%
2017	4	9.5%
2018	10	23.8%
2019	2	4.8%
2020	2	4.8%
2022	5	11.9%
2023	3	7.1%
2025partial year	2	4.8%

Which technologies does FPInnovations patent most?

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 9

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 8

C08H - Derivatives OF Natural Macromolecular Compounds 7

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 7

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

C07G - Compounds OF Unknown Constitution 6

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 5

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 5

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 4

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 4

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 4

Top 15 of 60 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

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FPInnovations's lead technology class is D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor), 21.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21C
Ranked #7,696 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FPInnovations against Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.7/100 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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