Where does Safran Ceramics rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Ceramics ranks #3,381 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 Safran Ceramics hold?

Safran Ceramics holds 110 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Safran Ceramics's Innovation Score?

Safran Ceramics has an Innovation Score of 59.0 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 Safran Ceramics's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran Ceramics's recent grant velocity is +700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Safran Ceramics's patents?

Safran Ceramics's patents average 11.0 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 Safran Ceramics 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

Safran Ceramics

Q: What technology areas does Safran Ceramics focus on?

Safran Ceramics'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 63 patents, ranking #20 of 1,052 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 110 granted patents across 45 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Safran ranks #3,381 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 110 patents across 45 technology areas.

#3,381
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: +700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3381 · Foreign Corporation #3,381 · 110 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 110 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,381/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kinze Manufacturing
CPC-WIDE C04B · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. (±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 Safran’s 59.0 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 16.3 pts (28%) Velocity 12.5 pts (21%) Breadth 23.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 6.6 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Biomet Manufacturing · near

59
Element Six (UK) · near

59
NCH · near

59
Safran Ceramics · this assignee

59
Tosoh · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (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 Safran?

Each dot is one of Safran’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). Safran’s own 11.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Safran's grants concentrate

Safran Ceramics is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 57.3% of grants classified under C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (22 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Safran sits between Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. and The Western Union Company.

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Ceramics moved from 31 to 58 grants (1.87x 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 #251. See the growth leaderboard.

Kinze Manufacturi…

110
National Taipei U…

110
OJI Holdings

110
Op-hygiene IP

110
Shanghai Micro Eq…

110
Sorrento Therapeu…

110
The ADT Security

110
The Western Union

110
Safran Ceramics ◀

110

What this shows Safran holds 110 patents at rank #3,381, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Safran

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,381 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Safran, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C04B (Lime), Safran ranks #20 of 1,052 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Tosoh Corporation 59 NCH Corporation 59 Biomet Manufacturing, LLC 59 Element Six (UK) Limited 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.0 here).

Regalo International, LLC 11.0 avg Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation 11.0 avg Mplus Corp. 11.0 avg Ares Trading S.A. 11.0 avg

Safran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 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 · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Safran Ceramics patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	0.9%
2019	9	8.2%
2020	12	10.9%
2021	10	9.1%
2022	14	12.7%
2023	22	20.0%
2024	22	20.0%
2025partial year	20	18.2%

Which technologies does Safran Ceramics 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 63

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 53

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 40

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 32

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 27

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 17

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 16

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 14

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 13

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 10

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 10

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 7

B01D - Separation 6

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 6

Top 15 of 45 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

Safran Ceramics's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran Ceramics'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), 57.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #3,381 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Ceramics against Kinze Manufacturing, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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

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