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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Interface, Inc. ranks #13,493 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 Interface, Inc. hold?

Interface, Inc. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Interface, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Interface, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Interface, Inc. focus on?

Interface, Inc.'s top technology area is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

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

Interface, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Interface, Inc.'s patents?

Interface, Inc.'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 Interface, 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 US Corporation

Interface, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Interface ranks #13,493 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 34 technology areas.

#13,493
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 23.0
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13493 · US Corporation #13,493 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,493/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Institute for…
CPC-FOCUS E04F · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Institute for Systems Biology (±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
Interface · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Interface's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% 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.

Where Interface's grants concentrate

Interface, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 27.3% of grants classified under E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Interface sits between Institute for Systems Biology and Iogen Energy Corporation.

Interface's three-year grant acceleration

Interface, Inc. shows 5 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.

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Iogen Energy

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22

What this shows Interface holds 22 patents at rank #13,496, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Interface

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,496 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings)

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

Interface's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Interface, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	18.2%
2016	2	9.1%
2017	3	13.6%
2018	1	4.5%
2019	2	9.1%
2021	5	22.7%
2022	1	4.5%
2023	3	13.6%
2024	1	4.5%

Which technologies does Interface, Inc. patent most?

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 6

D05C - EMBROIDERING; Tufting 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 4

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

B44F - Special Designs OR Pictures 3

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

G01G - Weighing 2

D05B - Sewing 2

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

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 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,493

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Interface, Inc.'s lead technology class is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors), 27.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04F
Ranked #13,493 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Interface, Inc. against Institute for Systems Biology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.