Where does GTAT Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GTAT Corporation ranks #8,396 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 GTAT Corporation hold?

GTAT Corporation holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is GTAT Corporation's Innovation Score?

GTAT Corporation has an Innovation Score of 43.6 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

GTAT Corporation'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 GTAT Corporation's patents?

GTAT Corporation's patents average 18.9 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 GTAT 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

GTAT Corporation

Q: What technology areas does GTAT Corporation focus on?

GTAT Corporation's top technology area is C30B (SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE ; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WI) with 22 patents. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: C30B (SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GTAT ranks #8,396 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 23 technology areas.

#8,396
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.6/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8396 · US Corporation #8,396 · 38 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,396/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH GEM Products
CPC-FOCUS C30B · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GEM Products, Llc (±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
Cornelius · near

44
GTAT · this assignee

44
VERO Biotech · near

44
Avedro · near

44
Center FOR Integrate… · near

44
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows GTAT Corporation stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #8,396 of 50,000; Innovation Score 43.6/100 sits in the top 28% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is GEM Products, Llc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

GTAT Corporation has been granted 38 US utility patents between 2015 and 2023, placing GTAT Corporation at #8,396 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 23 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 18.9 claims per patent with primary concentration in C30B (SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYS). As a US Corporation, GTAT Corporation is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, GTAT sits between GEM Products, Llc (38 patents, rank #8,389) and General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. (38 patents, rank #8,397) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 43.6/100 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 10 grants, compared with 28 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. GTAT Corporation's 18.9 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 23 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

GEM Products

38
Gemmy Industries

38
Geotoll

38
Grass Valley

38
Guangdong Midea C…

38
Guangzhou Wenyi C…

38
Guerbet

38
General Dynamics…

38
GTAT ◀

38

What this shows GTAT holds 38 patents at rank #8,393, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GTAT

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,393 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C30B (Single-crystal Growth)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GTAT, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

VERO Biotech Inc. 44 Cornelius, Inc. 44 Avedro, Inc. 44 Center FOR Integrated Smart Sensors Foundation 44

GTAT's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 28% higher than 72% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

View data table

GTAT Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	18.4%
2016	8	21.1%
2017	8	21.1%
2018	1	2.6%
2019	4	10.5%
2020	5	13.2%
2021	1	2.6%
2022	3	7.9%
2023	1	2.6%

Which technologies does GTAT Corporation patent most?

C30B - SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE ; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WI 22

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 15

C01B - NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C 8

C23C - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL 4

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 4

H10F - INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION 4

B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS 3

F28F - DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION 3

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

H04M - TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION 3

C25D - PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR 3

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 2

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 2

F27D - DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE 2

B28D - WORKING STONE OR STONE-LIKE MATERIALS 1

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,396

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

43.6 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

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