Where does GC Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GC Corporation ranks #3,068 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 GC Corporation hold?

GC Corporation holds 124 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is GC Corporation's Innovation Score?

GC Corporation has an Innovation Score of 47.1 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does GC Corporation focus on?

GC Corporation's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 44 patents, ranking #511 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

Is GC Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GC Corporation's recent grant velocity is +34% 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 GC Corporation's patents?

GC Corporation's patents average 4.3 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 GC Corporation 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

GC Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 124 granted patents across 42 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GC ranks #3,068 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 124 patents across 42 technology areas.

#3,068
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.1/100): 4.3
avg claims per patent: +34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3068 · Foreign Corporation #3,068 · 124 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 124 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,068/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Continental Automotive
CPC-WIDE A61K · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +34% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (±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 GC’s 47.1 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 16.7 pts (35%) Velocity 4.9 pts (10%) Breadth 22.9 pts (49%) Claim depth 2.6 pts (6%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Areva NP · near

47
GC · this assignee

47
The Hershey · near

47
Université Paris—Est… · near

47
Videojet · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GC's Innovation Score is 47.1/100 (top 19% 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 GC?

Each dot is one of GC’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). GC’s own 4.3 claims/patent is at or below the 12.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where GC's grants concentrate

GC Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 35.5% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (19 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2022. By volume, GC sits between Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH and Mölnlycke Health Care AB.

GC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GC Corporation moved from 46 to 34 grants (0.74x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,020. See the growth leaderboard.

Continental Autom…

124
Coupa Software In…

124
DDP Specialty Mat…

124
Dorel Juvenile Gr…

124
IPS Group

124
Innovium

124
Inteplast Group

124
Mölnlycke Health…

124
GC ◀

124

What this shows GC holds 124 patents at rank #3,068, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GC

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,068 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), GC ranks #511 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Videojet Technologies Inc. 47 Areva NP 47 The Hershey Company 47 Université Paris—Est Créteil Val de Marne 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (4.3 here).

Schneider Electric (Australia) Pty Ltd 4.3 avg Reckitt Benckiser (Brands) Limited 4.3 avg Ningbo Futai Electric Limited 4.3 avg International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC 4.3 avg

GC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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.

View data table

GC Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	8.1%
2016	10	8.1%
2017	9	7.3%
2018	8	6.5%
2019	13	10.5%
2020	19	15.3%
2021	14	11.3%
2022	7	5.6%
2023	12	9.7%
2024	15	12.1%
2025partial year	7	5.6%

Which technologies does GC Corporation patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 44

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 42

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 10

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 8

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 7

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 6

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 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 4

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 4

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 2

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

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 2

Top 15 of 42 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

GC Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GC Corporation's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 35.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #3,068 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GC Corporation against Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.1/100 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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