Where does GCP Applied Technologies Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GCP Applied Technologies Inc. ranks #8,033 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 GCP Applied Technologies Inc. hold?

GCP Applied Technologies Inc. holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is GCP Applied Technologies Inc.'s Innovation Score?

GCP Applied Technologies Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.4 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GCP Applied Technologies Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -24% 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 GCP Applied Technologies Inc.'s patents?

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.'s patents average 17.2 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 GCP Applied Technologies 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

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.

Q: What technology areas does GCP Applied Technologies Inc. focus on?

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.'s top technology area is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone) with 21 patents, ranking #61 of 1,052 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 30 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GCP ranks #8,033 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 30 technology areas.

#8,033
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.4/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8033 · US Corporation #8,033 · 40 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,033/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FeraDyne Outdoors
CPC-FOCUS C04B · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FeraDyne Outdoors, 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 GCP’s 51.4 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 12.8 pts (25%) Velocity 8.9 pts (17%) Breadth 19.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alclear · near

51
Shenzhen Yinwang… · near

51
The Reliable… · near

51
GCP Applied · this assignee

51
MIE University · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GCP's Innovation Score is 51.4/100 (top 11% 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 GCP?

Each dot is one of GCP’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). GCP’s own 17.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where GCP's grants concentrate

GCP Applied Technologies Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 52.5% of grants classified under C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, GCP sits between FeraDyne Outdoors, LLC and Gunze Limited.

GCP's three-year grant acceleration

GCP Applied Technologies Inc. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Feradyne Outdoors

40
Fibrogen

40
Foster-miller

40
G T LINE—S R L

40
Ghost Autonomy

40
Guandong Ocean Un…

40
Guardian Europe R…

40
Gunze

40
GCP Applied ◀

40

What this shows GCP holds 40 patents at rank #8,034, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GCP

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,034 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GCP, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C04B (Lime), GCP ranks #61 of 1,052 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

MIE University 51 The Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc. 51 Alclear, LLC 51 Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. 51

GCP's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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GCP Applied Technologies Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	10.0%
2017	5	12.5%
2018	7	17.5%
2019	5	12.5%
2020	2	5.0%
2021	2	5.0%
2022	5	12.5%
2024	7	17.5%
2025partial year	3	7.5%

Which technologies does GCP Applied Technologies Inc. patent most?

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 21

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 10

B28C - Preparing CLAY; Producing Mixtures Containing Clay OR Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 9

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 6

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 3

Top 15 of 30 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

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.'s lead technology class is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone), 52.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #8,033 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GCP Applied Technologies Inc. against FeraDyne Outdoors, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.4/100 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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