Where does G.D S.P.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), G.D S.P.A. ranks #3,374 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 G.D S.P.A. hold?

G.D S.P.A. holds 110 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is G.D S.P.A.'s Innovation Score?

G.D S.P.A. has an Innovation Score of 62.0 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does G.D S.P.A. focus on?

G.D S.P.A.'s top technology area is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking) with 50 patents, ranking #16 of 1,343 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is G.D S.P.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

G.D S.P.A.'s recent grant velocity is +86% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for G.D S.P.A.'s patents?

G.D S.P.A.'s patents average 13.7 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 G.D S.P.A. 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

G.D S.P.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 110 granted patents across 34 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: B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, G.d ranks #3,374 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 110 patents across 34 technology areas.

#3,374
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (62.0/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: +86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3374 · Foreign Corporation #3,374 · 110 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 110 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,374/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Enza Zaden Beheer B V
CPC-FOCUS B65B · 34 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +86% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. (±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 G.d’s 62.0 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 16.3 pts (26%) Velocity 16.9 pts (27%) Breadth 20.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Thermo King · near

62
Arthrex · near

62
G D S P A · this assignee

62
Hasco Vision… · near

62
Ulsan National… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows G.d's Innovation Score is 62.0/100 (top 3% 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 G.d?

Each dot is one of G.d’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). G.d’s own 13.7 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where G.d's grants concentrate

G.D S.P.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (24 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, G.d sits between Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. and National Taipei University of Technology.

G.d's three-year grant acceleration

G.D S.P.A. shows 43 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Enza Zaden Beheer…

110
Experian Informat…

110
Flowserve Managem…

110
Fuelcell Energy

110
Harmonic

110
King's College Lo…

110
Kinze Manufacturi…

110
National Taipei U…

110
G D S P A ◀

110

What this shows G.D holds 110 patents at rank #3,374, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GD

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,374 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65B (Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GD, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65B (Machines), GD ranks #16 of 1,343 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Hasco Vision Technology Co., Ltd. 62 Arthrex, Inc. 62 Ulsan National Institute OF Science AND Technology 62 Thermo King LLC 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.7 here).

Kidde Technologies, Inc. 13.7 avg Bottomline Technologies, Inc. 13.7 avg Square Enix Co., Ltd. 13.7 avg Abbott Molecular Inc. 13.7 avg

G.d's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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

G.D S.P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	3.6%
2016	6	5.5%
2017	8	7.3%
2018	2	1.8%
2019	8	7.3%
2020	2	1.8%
2021	7	6.4%
2022	9	8.2%
2023	10	9.1%
2024	24	21.8%
2025partial year	30	27.3%

Which technologies does G.D S.P.A. patent most?

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 50

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 35

A24C - Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes 26

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 17

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 15

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 11

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 5

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 5

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 3

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 2

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 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

G01G - Weighing 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

Top 15 of 34 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

G.D S.P.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

G.D S.P.A.'s lead technology class is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65B
Ranked #3,374 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare G.D S.P.A. against Enza Zaden Beheer B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.0/100 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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