Where does Glaston Finland Oy rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glaston Finland Oy ranks #26,383 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 Glaston Finland Oy hold?

Glaston Finland Oy holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Glaston Finland Oy's Innovation Score?

Glaston Finland Oy has an Innovation Score of 44.5 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Glaston Finland Oy focus on?

Glaston Finland Oy's top technology area is C03B (Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes) with 7 patents, ranking #58 of 269 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Glaston Finland Oy's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Glaston Finland Oy's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Glaston Finland Oy's patents?

Glaston Finland Oy's patents average 10.3 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 Glaston Finland Oy 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

Glaston Finland Oy

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: C03B (Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Glaston ranks #26,383 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 8 technology areas.

#26,383
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.5/100): 10.3
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26383 · Foreign Corporation #26,383 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,383/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Georg Fischer
CPC-NARROW C03B · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Georg Fischer 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 Glaston’s 44.5 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 8.3 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (45%) Breadth 10.0 pts (22%) Claim depth 6.2 pts (14%)

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Glaston Finland Oy · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Glaston's Innovation Score is 44.5/100 (top 25% 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 Glaston?

Each dot is one of Glaston’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). Glaston’s own 10.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Glaston's grants concentrate

Glaston Finland Oy is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under C03B (Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Glaston sits between Georg Fischer LLC and Golden Biotechnology Corporation.

Glaston's three-year grant acceleration

Glaston Finland Oy shows 6 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.

Georg Fischer

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10

What this shows Glaston holds 10 patents at rank #26,404, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glaston

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,404 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C03B (Manufacture)

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

Glaston's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Glaston Finland Oy patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	10.0%
2017	1	10.0%
2019	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2023	3	30.0%
2024	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Glaston Finland Oy patent most?

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 1

F27M - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects OF THE Charges OR Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts 1

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Glaston Finland Oy's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Glaston Finland Oy's lead technology class is C03B (Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C03B
Ranked #26,383 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glaston Finland Oy against Georg Fischer LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.5/100 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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