Where does Glatfelter Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glatfelter Corporation ranks #40,439 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 Glatfelter Corporation hold?

Glatfelter Corporation holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Glatfelter Corporation's Innovation Score?

Glatfelter Corporation has an Innovation Score of 47.3 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Glatfelter Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Glatfelter Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for Glatfelter Corporation's patents?

Glatfelter Corporation's patents average 15.7 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 Glatfelter Corporation 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

Glatfelter Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Glatfelter Corporation focus on?

Glatfelter Corporation's top technology area is D04H (Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation) with 6 patents, ranking #53 of 323 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: D04H (Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple FI).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Glatfelter ranks #40,439 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 10 technology areas.

#40,439
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.3/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R40439 · US Corporation #40,439 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #40,439/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GigaIO Networks
CPC-FOCUS D04H · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GigaIO Networks, 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.

How Glatfelter’s 47.3 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 6.7 pts (14%) Velocity 20.0 pts (42%) Breadth 11.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Glatfelter · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Glatfelter's Innovation Score is 47.3/100 (top 19% 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 Glatfelter?

Each dot is one of Glatfelter’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). Glatfelter’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Glatfelter's grants concentrate

Glatfelter Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under D04H (Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple FI). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Glatfelter sits between GigaIO Networks, Inc. and Global Dental Impression Trays, Inc..

Glatfelter's three-year grant acceleration

Glatfelter Corporation shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

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What this shows Glatfelter holds 6 patents at rank #40,499, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glatfelter

By rank, the assignees closest to #40,499 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D04H (Making Textile Fabrics)

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

Glatfelter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Glatfelter Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	16.7%
2023	2	33.3%
2024	2	33.3%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Glatfelter Corporation patent most?

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 6

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

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 3

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 2

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 1

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 1

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 1

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Glatfelter Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Glatfelter Corporation's lead technology class is D04H (Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple FI), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D04H
Ranked #40,439 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glatfelter Corporation against GigaIO Networks, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.3/100 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.