Where does Richemont International SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Richemont International SA ranks #1,659 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 Richemont International SA hold?

Richemont International SA holds 248 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Richemont International SA's Innovation Score?

Richemont International SA has an Innovation Score of 37.0 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Richemont International SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Richemont International SA's recent grant velocity is +49% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Richemont International SA's patents?

Richemont International SA's patents average 1.8 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 Richemont International SA 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

Richemont International SA

Q: What technology areas does Richemont International SA focus on?

Richemont International SA'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 9 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 248 granted patents across 12 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Richemont ranks #1,659 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 248 patents across 12 technology areas.

#1,659
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (37.0/100): 1.8
avg claims per patent: +49%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1659 · Foreign Corporation #1,659 · 248 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 248 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,659/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Amadeus S
CPC-FOCUS G04B · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +49% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amadeus S.A.S. (±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
ADAP TV · near

37
Henny Penny · near

37
MRI Interventions · near

37
Richemont Internatio… · this assignee

37
Tokiwa · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Richemont's Innovation Score is 37.0/100 (top 45% 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 Richemont's grants concentrate

Richemont International SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 3.6% 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 2019 (40 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Richemont sits between Amadeus S.A.S. and Cambridge Enterprise Limited.

Richemont's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Richemont International SA moved from 99 to 68 grants (0.69x 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 #2,192. See the growth leaderboard.

Amadeus S

248
Chicony Power Tec…

248
Magpul Industries

248
Oregon Health & S…

248
Teradata US

248
Water Pik

248
Richemont Interna… ◀

248
Biogen MA

247
Cambridge Enterpr…

247

What this shows Richemont holds 248 patents at rank #1,659, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Richemont

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,659 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Tokiwa Corporation 37 ADAP.TV, Inc. 37 Henny Penny Corporation 37 MRI Interventions, Inc. 37

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.8 here).

Crocs, Inc. 1.8 avg Kimree Hi-tech Inc 1.8 avg Real Value LLC 1.8 avg Iris Ohyama Inc. 1.8 avg

Richemont's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Richemont International SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	1.2%
2016	18	7.3%
2017	9	3.6%
2018	15	6.0%
2019	40	16.1%
2020	30	12.1%
2021	29	11.7%
2022	21	8.5%
2023	20	8.1%
2024	27	10.9%
2025partial year	36	14.5%

Which technologies does Richemont International SA 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 9

G04F - Time-interval Measuring 3

G04C - Electromechanical Clocks OR Watches 3

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 1

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 1

G04G - Electronic Time-pieces 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 1

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 1

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 1

G04D - Apparatus OR Tools Specially Designed FOR Making OR Maintaining Clocks OR Watches 1

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,659

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

37.0 out of 100

View all rankings →

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Richemont International SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Richemont International SA'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), 3.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G04B
Ranked #1,659 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Richemont International SA against Amadeus S.A.S., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.0/100 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.