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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glytech, Inc. ranks #11,660 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 Glytech, Inc. hold?

Glytech, Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Glytech, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Glytech, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.0 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%).

What technology areas does Glytech, Inc. focus on?

Glytech, Inc.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 18 patents, ranking #1,261 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

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

Glytech, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Glytech, Inc.'s patents?

Glytech, Inc.'s patents average 15.5 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 Glytech, 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 Foreign Corporation

Glytech, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 17 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Glytech ranks #11,660 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 17 technology areas.

#11,660
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.0/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11660 · Foreign Corporation #11,660 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,660/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH General Equipment…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: General Equipment and Manufacturing Company, 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 Glytech’s 39.0 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 11.4 pts (29%) Velocity 3.8 pts (10%) Breadth 14.6 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Asia Connection · near

39
Glytech · this assignee

39
Innocom Technology… · near

39
Lenze Automation · near

39
Newman Infinite · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Glytech's Innovation Score is 39.0/100 (top 39% 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 Glytech?

Each dot is one of Glytech’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). Glytech’s own 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Glytech's grants concentrate

Glytech, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Glytech sits between GeneSic Semiconductor Inc. and Horiba ABX SAS.

Glytech's three-year grant acceleration

Glytech, Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Genesic Semicondu…

26
General Equipment…

26
Geopier Foundation

26
Global Dental Sci…

26
Handi-craft

26
Hayashi Telempu

26
Heraeus Precious…

26
Horiba ABX SAS

26
Glytech ◀

26

What this shows Glytech holds 26 patents at rank #11,662, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glytech

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,662 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Glytech, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Glytech ranks #1,261 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Lenze Automation GmbH 39 Asia Connection LLC 39 Innocom Technology (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 39 Newman Infinite, Inc. 39

Glytech'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 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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Glytech, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.7%
2016	4	15.4%
2017	3	11.5%
2018	5	19.2%
2019	2	7.7%
2020	3	11.5%
2021	2	7.7%
2022	1	3.8%
2023	1	3.8%
2024	2	7.7%
2025partial year	1	3.8%

Which technologies does Glytech, Inc. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 18

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 16

C07K - Peptides 14

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 3

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 3

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 1

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

C08H - Derivatives OF Natural Macromolecular Compounds 1

Top 15 of 17 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

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

Glytech, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #11,660 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glytech, Inc. against GeneSic Semiconductor Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.0/100 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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