Where does Placements Gaston Houle Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Placements Gaston Houle Inc. ranks #16,285 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 Placements Gaston Houle Inc. hold?

Placements Gaston Houle Inc. holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2020, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Placements Gaston Houle Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Placements Gaston Houle Inc. has an Innovation Score of 22.4 out of 100 (10th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Placements Gaston Houle Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Placements Gaston Houle Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -80% 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 Placements Gaston Houle Inc.'s patents?

Placements Gaston Houle Inc.'s patents average 10.2 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 Placements Gaston Houle 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 Foreign Corporation

Placements Gaston Houle Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Placements Gaston Houle Inc. focus on?

Placements Gaston Houle Inc.'s top technology area is F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 9 patents, ranking #28 of 154 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2020. 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: F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Placements ranks #16,285 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 3 technology areas.

#16,285
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 10th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.4/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16285 · Foreign Corporation #16,285 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,285/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pepperl+Fuchs SE
CPC-NARROW F41B · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pepperl+Fuchs SE (±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 Placements’s 22.4 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 10.2 pts (46%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 6.1 pts (27%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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What this shows Placements's Innovation Score is 22.4/100 (10th percentile 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 Placements?

Each dot is one of Placements’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). Placements’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 14.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Placements's grants concentrate

Placements Gaston Houle Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Placements sits between Pepperl+Fuchs SE and Productive Application Solutions, Inc..

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18
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What this shows Placements holds 18 patents at rank #16,289, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Placements

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,289 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive…)

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

Placements's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 10th percentile higher than 10% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Placements Gaston Houle Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	33.3%
2017	5	27.8%
2018	3	16.7%
2019	1	5.6%
2020	3	16.7%

Which technologies does Placements Gaston Houle Inc. patent most?

F41B - Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

Top 3 of 3 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

Placements Gaston Houle Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Placements Gaston Houle Inc.'s lead technology class is F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41B
Ranked #16,285 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Placements Gaston Houle Inc. against Pepperl+Fuchs SE, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.4/100 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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