Where does Montres Breguet S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Montres Breguet S.A. ranks #2,157 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 Montres Breguet S.A. hold?

Montres Breguet S.A. holds 183 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Montres Breguet S.A.'s Innovation Score?

Montres Breguet S.A. has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Montres Breguet S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Montres Breguet S.A.'s recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Montres Breguet S.A.'s patents?

Montres Breguet S.A.'s patents average 12.7 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 Montres Breguet S.A. 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

Montres Breguet S.A.

Q: What technology areas does Montres Breguet S.A. focus on?

Montres Breguet S.A.'s top technology area is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars) with 140 patents. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 183 granted patents across 34 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: G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Montres ranks #2,157 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 183 patents across 34 technology areas.

#2,157
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2157 · Foreign Corporation #2,157 · 183 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 183 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,157/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Danmarks Tekniske…
CPC-FOCUS G04B · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (±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
L3 · near

52
Montres Breguet · this assignee

52
Next Silicon · near

52
Ottobock SE & Kgaa · near

52
University of Adelaide · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Montres's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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 Montres's grants concentrate

Montres Breguet S.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 76.5% of grants classified under G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (21 grants) versus a trough of 14 in 2018. By volume, Montres sits between Danmarks Tekniske Universitet and Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch.

Montres's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Montres Breguet S.A. moved from 53 to 48 grants (0.91x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,455. See the growth leaderboard.

Danmarks Tekniske…

183
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183
Huawei Cloud Comp…

183
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183
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183
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183
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183
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183
Montres Breguet ◀

183

What this shows Montres holds 183 patents at rank #2,157, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Montres

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,157 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa 52 L3 Technologies, Inc. 52 Next Silicon Ltd 52 University of Adelaide 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.7 here).

Everdisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd 12.7 avg K&N Engineering, Inc. 12.7 avg King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology 12.7 avg Sivantos Pte. Ltd. 12.7 avg

Montres's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Montres Breguet S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	11.5%
2016	20	10.9%
2017	18	9.8%
2018	14	7.7%
2019	17	9.3%
2020	15	8.2%
2021	21	11.5%
2022	16	8.7%
2023	15	8.2%
2024	17	9.3%
2025partial year	9	4.9%

Which technologies does Montres Breguet S.A. patent most?

G04B - Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars 140

G04C - Electromechanical Clocks OR Watches 16

G04D - Apparatus OR Tools Specially Designed FOR Making OR Maintaining Clocks OR Watches 14

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 12

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 10

G04F - Time-interval Measuring 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

G10F - Automatic Musical Instruments 6

C22C - Alloys 5

F16H - Gearing 3

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

G06G - Analogue Computers 2

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,157

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.3 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

Montres Breguet S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Montres Breguet S.A.'s lead technology class is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G04B
Ranked #2,157 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Montres Breguet S.A. against Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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

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