Where does Gradiant Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gradiant Corporation ranks #7,417 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 Gradiant Corporation hold?

Gradiant Corporation holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Gradiant Corporation's Innovation Score?

Gradiant Corporation has an Innovation Score of 46.1 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gradiant Corporation focus on?

Gradiant Corporation's top technology area is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge) with 40 patents, ranking #16 of 1,366 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

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

Gradiant Corporation's recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Gradiant Corporation's patents?

Gradiant Corporation's patents average 23.0 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 Gradiant 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

Gradiant Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 24 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: C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gradiant ranks #7,417 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 24 technology areas.

#7,417
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.1/100): 23.0
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7417 · US Corporation #7,417 · 44 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,417/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ganymed Pharmaceutic…
CPC-FOCUS C02F · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ganymed Pharmaceuticals GmbH (±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 Gradiant’s 46.1 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 13.1 pts (28%) Velocity 1.8 pts (4%) Breadth 17.3 pts (38%) Claim depth 13.8 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Defond Componets · near

46
Gradiant · this assignee

46
Inscripta · near

46
Leggett & Platt Canada · near

46
Smule · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gradiant's Innovation Score is 46.1/100 (top 22% 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 Gradiant?

Each dot is one of Gradiant’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). Gradiant’s own 23.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Gradiant's grants concentrate

Gradiant Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Gradiant sits between Ganymed Pharmaceuticals GmbH and Hydac Fluidtechnik GMBH.

Gradiant's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gradiant Corporation moved from 22 to 6 grants (0.27x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Ganymed Pharmaceu…

44
Gemtek Technology

44
Glowforge

44
Grabango

44
Hawe Hydraulik SE

44
Hochiki

44
Hunan Brunp EV Re…

44
Hydac Fluidtechnik

44
Gradiant ◀

44

What this shows Gradiant holds 44 patents at rank #7,417, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gradiant

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,417 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C02F (Treatment OF Water)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gradiant, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C02F (Treatment OF Water), Gradiant ranks #16 of 1,366 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Defond Componets Limited 46 Leggett & Platt Canada Co. 46 Smule, Inc. 46 Inscripta Inc. 46

Gradiant's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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.

View data table

Gradiant Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	6.8%
2016	3	6.8%
2017	4	9.1%
2018	5	11.4%
2019	15	34.1%
2020	3	6.8%
2021	4	9.1%
2022	3	6.8%
2023	2	4.5%
2024	1	2.3%
2025partial year	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Gradiant Corporation patent most?

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 40

B01D - Separation 40

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 31

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 11

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 10

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 7

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 5

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 4

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 4

F28C - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media Come Into Direct Contact Without Chemical Interaction 4

F28B - Steam OR Vapour Condensers 4

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

Top 15 of 24 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

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

Gradiant Corporation's lead technology class is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge), 90.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C02F
Ranked #7,417 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gradiant Corporation against Ganymed Pharmaceuticals GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.1/100 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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