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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glas, Inc. ranks #12,018 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 Glas, Inc. hold?

Glas, Inc. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Glas, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Glas, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 31.1 out of 100 (37th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Glas, Inc. focus on?

Glas, Inc.'s top technology area is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices) with 16 patents, ranking #38 of 214 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

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

Glas, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +350% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Glas, Inc.'s patents?

Glas, Inc.'s patents average 13.5 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 Glas, 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

Glas, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Glas ranks #12,018 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 6 technology areas.

#12,018
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 37th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.1/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent: +350%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12018 · US Corporation #12,018 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,018/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Footprint Internatio…
CPC-NARROW A24F · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +350% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Footprint International, 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 Glas’s 31.1 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 11.3 pts (36%) Velocity 3.1 pts (10%) Breadth 8.7 pts (28%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shenzhen Xingrisheng… · near

31
Utherverse Digital · near

31
Glas · this assignee

31
Turtle WAX · near

31
Urban Armor Gear · near

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Glas's Innovation Score is 31.1/100 (37th percentile 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 Glas?

Each dot is one of Glas’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). Glas’s own 13.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Glas's grants concentrate

Glas, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 64% of grants classified under A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Glas sits between Footprint International, LLC and Guangdong Xizhongxi Technology Co., Ltd..

Glas's three-year grant acceleration

Glas, Inc. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Footprint Interna…

25
GCX

25
Genesys Logic

25
Giuliani S P A

25
Global Frontier C…

25
Grubhub Holdings

25
Guangdong Virtual…

25
Guangdong Xizhong…

25
Glas ◀

25

What this shows Glas holds 25 patents at rank #12,016, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glas

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,016 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24F (Smokers' Requisites)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Glas, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A24F (Smokers' Requisites), Glas ranks #38 of 214 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (31 here).

Turtle WAX, Inc. 31 Urban Armor Gear, LLC 31 Shenzhen Xingrisheng Industrial Co., Ltd. 31 Utherverse Digital Inc. 31

Glas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 37th percentile higher than 37% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Glas, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	4	16.0%
2020	5	20.0%
2021	6	24.0%
2022	2	8.0%
2023	1	4.0%
2024	4	16.0%
2025partial year	3	12.0%

Which technologies does Glas, Inc. patent most?

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 16

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 12

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

Top 6 of 6 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

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

Glas, Inc.'s lead technology class is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices), 64% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24F
Ranked #12,018 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glas, Inc. against Footprint International, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.1/100 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

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.