Where does Gala Industies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gala Industies, Inc. ranks #9,773 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 Gala Industies, Inc. hold?

Gala Industies, Inc. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Gala Industies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Gala Industies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.6 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gala Industies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gala Industies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -81% 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 Gala Industies, Inc.'s patents?

Gala Industies, Inc.'s patents average 20.9 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 Gala Industies, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Gala Industies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Gala Industies, Inc. focus on?

Gala Industies, Inc.'s top technology area is B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics) with 22 patents. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gala ranks #9,773 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 23 technology areas.

#9,773
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.6/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: -81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9773 · US Corporation #9,773 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,773/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fractus Antennas S L
CPC-FOCUS B29B · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fractus Antennas, S.L. (±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
Cista System · near

42
Gala Industies · this assignee

42
Millibatt · near

42
Oakbio · near

42
Srgi Holdings · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gala's Innovation Score is 41.6/100 (top 33% 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.

Where Gala's grants concentrate

Gala Industies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 68.8% of grants classified under B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Gala sits between Fractus Antennas, S.L. and Hamanakodenso Co., Ltd..

Fractus Antennas…

32
Fusion Optix

32
GB II

32
Grob-werke & KG

32
Graftech Internat…

32
Gruppo Cimbali S…

32
Gynesonics

32
Hamanakodenso

32
Gala Industies ◀

32

What this shows Gala holds 32 patents at rank #9,775, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gala

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,775 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE Shaped)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Cista System Corp. 42 Srgi Holdings LLC 42 Millibatt, Inc. 42 Oakbio, Inc. 42

Gala's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Gala Industies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	15.6%
2016	4	12.5%
2017	7	21.9%
2018	8	25.0%
2019	3	9.4%
2020	3	9.4%
2021	2	6.3%

Which technologies does Gala Industies, Inc. patent most?

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 22

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 12

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 11

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 11

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 4

B01D - Separation 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 2

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,773

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Gala Industies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gala Industies, Inc.'s lead technology class is B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics), 68.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29B
Ranked #9,773 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gala Industies, Inc. against Fractus Antennas, S.L., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.6/100 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

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