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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glenair, Inc. ranks #14,645 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 Glenair, Inc. hold?

Glenair, Inc. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Glenair, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Glenair, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Glenair, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -64% 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 Glenair, Inc.'s patents?

Glenair, Inc.'s patents average 27.6 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 Glenair, 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

Glenair, Inc.

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

Glenair, Inc.'s top technology area is H01R (ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H01R (ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Glenair ranks #14,645 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 12 technology areas.

#14,645
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 27.6
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14645 · US Corporation #14,645 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,645/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH GCE HOLDING AB
CPC-FOCUS H01R · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 27.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GCE Holding AB (±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
Glenair · this assignee

39
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Glenair, Inc. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-DENSE, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #14,645 of 50,000; Innovation Score 39.1/100 sits in the top 39% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is GCE Holding AB (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Glenair, Inc. has been granted 20 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing Glenair, Inc. at #14,645 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 12 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 27.6 claims per patent with primary concentration in H01R (ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS). As a US Corporation, Glenair, Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Glenair sits between GCE Holding AB (20 patents, rank #14,633) and Green IDEA TECH Inc. (20 patents, rank #14,641) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 39.1/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 5 grants, compared with 14 in the 2015–2019 window, a -64% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Glenair, Inc.'s 27.6 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 12 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

GCE Holding AB

20
GE Embedded Oy

20
Genus Lifesciences

20
GK Packaging

20
Global Store Supp…

20
Goppion S P A

20
Graphene Square

20
Green IDEA TECH

20
Glenair ◀

20

What this shows Glenair holds 20 patents at rank #14,637, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glenair

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,637 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Glenair's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Glenair, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	30.0%
2017	4	20.0%
2018	3	15.0%
2019	1	5.0%
2020	3	15.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	1	5.0%
2025partial year	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Glenair, Inc. patent most?

H01R - ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS 11

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 6

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 6

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES 4

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; VEHICLES OR EQUIPMENT THEREFOR 3

H01H - ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES 3

H02G - INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES 1

D10B - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES 1

D02G - CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS 1

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 1

B01L - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE 1

F16B - DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#14,645

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.1 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

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