Where does Gilson, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gilson, Inc. ranks #26,382 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Gilson, Inc. hold?

Gilson, Inc. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Gilson, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Gilson, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 28.5 out of 100 (top 73% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Gilson, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Gilson, Inc.'s patents?

Gilson, Inc.'s patents average 6.8 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 Gilson, 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

Gilson, Inc.

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

Gilson, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES) with 3 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gilson ranks #26,382 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 3 technology areas.

#26,382
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 73%
by Innovation Score (28.5/100): 6.8
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26382 · US Corporation #26,382 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,382/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH GENERAL AUTOMATION LAB
CPC-NARROW G01N · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: General Automation LAB Technologies Inc. (±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
Gilson · this assignee

28
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Gilson's Innovation Score is 28.5/100 (top 73% 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 Gilson's grants concentrate

Gilson, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 30% of grants classified under G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Gilson sits between General Automation LAB Technologies Inc. and Global Safety Textiles Gmbh.

Gilson's three-year grant acceleration

Gilson, Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

General Automatio…

10
Genesis Technolog…

10
Genus Oncology

10
Giken

10
Global Advanced M…

10
Global Biolife

10
Global Energy Int…

10
Global Safety Tex…

10
Gilson ◀

10

What this shows Gilson holds 10 patents at rank #26,360, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gilson

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,360 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Gilson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 Top 73% higher than 27% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

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

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Gilson, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	40.0%
2018	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2023	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Gilson, Inc. patent most?

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 3

B01L - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE 2

B03C - MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS 1

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#26,382

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

28.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.