Where does Glory Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glory Ltd. ranks #1,358 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 Glory Ltd. hold?

Glory Ltd. holds 309 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Glory Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Glory Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 55.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Glory Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Glory Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +4% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Glory Ltd.'s patents?

Glory Ltd.'s patents average 12.5 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 Glory Ltd. 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

Glory Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Glory Ltd. focus on?

Glory Ltd.'s top technology area is G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing) with 266 patents, ranking #1 of 185 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 309 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Glory ranks #1,358 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 309 patents across 37 technology areas.

#1,358
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (55.9/100): 12.5
avg claims per patent: +4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1358 · Foreign Corporation #1,358 · 309 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 309 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,358/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Bionics
CPC-FOCUS G07D · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Bionics AG (±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 Glory’s 55.9 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 19.8 pts (35%) Velocity 7.1 pts (13%) Breadth 21.5 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dropbox · near

56
Glory · this assignee

56
Xiamen Pvtech · near

56
Joseph Voegele · near

56
Sanko Tekstil… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Glory's Innovation Score is 55.9/100 (top 6% 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 Glory?

Each dot is one of Glory’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). Glory’s own 12.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Glory's grants concentrate

Glory Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 86.1% of grants classified under G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (34 grants) versus a trough of 21 in 2016. By volume, Glory sits between Cheil Industries Inc. and CertainTeed LLC.

Glory's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Glory Ltd. moved from 84 to 89 grants (1.06x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,039. See the growth leaderboard.

Cheil Industries

310
Otter Products

310
Advanced Bionics

309
Daio Paper

309
Gwangju Institute…

309
Twilio

309
Glory ◀

309
Shanghai Jiao Ton…

308
Certainteed

307

What this shows Glory holds 309 patents at rank #1,358, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glory

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,358 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Glory, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers), Glory ranks #1 of 185 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Dropbox, Inc. 56 Xiamen Pvtech Co., Ltd. 56 Joseph Voegele AG 56 Sanko Tekstil Isletmeleri San. Ve Tic. A.S. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.5 here).

Vitesco Technologies GMBH 12.5 avg Liberty Hardware MFG. Corp. 12.5 avg Janssen Sciences Ireland UC 12.5 avg KX Technologies LLC 12.5 avg

Glory's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Glory Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	11.0%
2016	21	6.8%
2017	26	8.4%
2018	25	8.1%
2019	31	10.0%
2020	28	9.1%
2021	25	8.1%
2022	33	10.7%
2023	25	8.1%
2024	31	10.0%
2025partial year	30	9.7%

Which technologies does Glory Ltd. patent most?

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 266

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 97

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 81

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 40

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 30

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 25

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 18

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

E05G - Safes OR Strong-rooms FOR VALUABLES; Bank Protection DEVICES; Safety Transaction Partitions 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 8

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 7

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 5

Top 15 of 37 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

Glory Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Glory Ltd.'s lead technology class is G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing), 86.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07D
Ranked #1,358 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glory Ltd. against Cheil Industries Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.9/100 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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