Where does Holcim Technology Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Holcim Technology Ltd ranks #4,337 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 Holcim Technology Ltd hold?

Holcim Technology Ltd holds 82 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 66 technology areas.

What is Holcim Technology Ltd's Innovation Score?

Holcim Technology Ltd has an Innovation Score of 59.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Holcim Technology Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Holcim Technology Ltd's recent grant velocity is +260% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Holcim Technology Ltd's patents?

Holcim Technology Ltd's patents average 15.4 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 Holcim Technology 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

Holcim Technology Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Holcim Technology Ltd focus on?

Holcim Technology Ltd's top technology area is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone) with 27 patents, ranking #45 of 1,052 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 66 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 82 granted patents across 66 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: C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Holcim ranks #4,337 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 82 patents across 66 technology areas.

#4,337
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: +260%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4337 · Foreign Corporation #4,337 · 82 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 82 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,337/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Faurecia Clarion
CPC-WIDE C04B · 66 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +260% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd. (±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 Holcim’s 59.7 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 15.3 pts (26%) Velocity 10.1 pts (17%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Assa Abloy Americas… · near

60
China Tobacco Hunan… · near

60
FPInnovations · near

60
Graphcore · near

60
Holcim Technology · this assignee

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Holcim's Innovation Score is 59.7/100 (top 4% 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 Holcim?

Each dot is one of Holcim’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). Holcim’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Holcim's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Holcim Technology Ltd received 54 grants versus 15 in 2015–2019 (+260% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 2. Lead class C04B accounts for 32.9% of the portfolio across 66 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd. (#4,331) and Institute For Basic Science (#4,339).

Holcim's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Holcim Technology Ltd moved from 23 to 35 grants (1.52x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Faurecia Clarion

82
Guangzhou Haoyang

82
Gudeng Precision…

82
H J Heinz Brands

82
Innovex Downhole…

82
Institut Mines Te…

82
Institut National…

82
Institute For Bas…

82
Holcim Technology ◀

82

What this shows Holcim holds 82 patents at rank #4,335, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Holcim

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,335 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Holcim, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C04B (Lime), Holcim ranks #45 of 1,052 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Assa Abloy Americas Residential Inc. 60 China Tobacco Hunan Industrial Co., Ltd. 60 Graphcore Limited 60 FPInnovations 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC 15.4 avg Daramic, LLC 15.4 avg Ineos Styrolution Group GMBH 15.4 avg Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH 15.4 avg

Holcim's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Holcim Technology Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.4%
2016	4	4.9%
2017	2	2.4%
2018	3	3.7%
2019	4	4.9%
2020	12	14.6%
2021	7	8.5%
2022	5	6.1%
2023	11	13.4%
2024	19	23.2%
2025partial year	13	15.9%

Which technologies does Holcim Technology Ltd patent most?

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 27

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 25

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 23

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 15

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 13

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 12

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 12

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 10

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 9

F03D - Wind Motors 8

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 8

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 8

Top 15 of 66 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

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

Holcim Technology Ltd's lead technology class is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone), 32.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #4,337 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Holcim Technology Ltd against Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.7/100 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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