Where does Saint-gobain Abrasifs rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Saint-gobain Abrasifs ranks #2,069 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 Saint-gobain Abrasifs hold?

Saint-gobain Abrasifs holds 192 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Saint-gobain Abrasifs's Innovation Score?

Saint-gobain Abrasifs has an Innovation Score of 58.4 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%).

What technology areas does Saint-gobain Abrasifs focus on?

Saint-gobain Abrasifs's top technology area is B24D (Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening) with 167 patents, ranking #2 of 165 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is Saint-gobain Abrasifs's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Saint-gobain Abrasifs's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Saint-gobain Abrasifs's patents?

Saint-gobain Abrasifs's patents average 18.1 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 Saint-gobain Abrasifs 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

Saint-gobain Abrasifs

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 192 granted patents across 36 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: B24D (Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Saint-gobain ranks #2,069 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 192 patents across 36 technology areas.

#2,069
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.4/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2069 · Foreign Corporation #2,069 · 192 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 192 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,069/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Opple Lighting
CPC-FOCUS B24D · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. (±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 Saint-gobain’s 58.4 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 18.2 pts (31%) Velocity 8.2 pts (14%) Breadth 21.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Japan Aerospace… · near

58
Saint-gobain Abrasifs · this assignee

58
Dentsply Sirona · near

58
Fujifilm Materials U · near

58
MacDonald Dettwiler… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Saint-gobain's Innovation Score is 58.4/100 (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 Saint-gobain?

Each dot is one of Saint-gobain’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). Saint-gobain’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Saint-gobain's grants concentrate

Saint-gobain Abrasifs is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 87% of grants classified under B24D (Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (34 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2020. By volume, Saint-gobain sits between Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. and Nortonlifelock Inc..

Saint-gobain's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Saint-gobain Abrasifs moved from 35 to 43 grants (1.23x 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 #736. See the growth leaderboard.

Opple Lighting

192
Quantum

192
Safran Helicopter…

192
Sagemcom Broadban…

192
Zhejiang Sunny Op…

192
Saint-gobain Abra… ◀

192
Array Biopharma

191
Isco International

191
Nortonlifelock

191

What this shows Saint-gobain holds 192 patents at rank #2,069, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Saint-gobain

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,069 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B24D (Tools FOR Grinding)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Saint-gobain's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Saint-gobain, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B24D (Tools FOR Grinding), Saint-gobain ranks #2 of 165 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 58 Dentsply Sirona Inc. 58 Fujifilm Electronic Materials U.S.A., Inc. 58 MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.1 here).

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 18.1 avg Kansas State University Research Foundation 18.1 avg Ibiden Co., Ltd. 18.1 avg Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. 18.1 avg

Saint-gobain's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 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 · 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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Saint-gobain Abrasifs patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	17.7%
2016	24	12.5%
2017	20	10.4%
2018	27	14.1%
2019	17	8.9%
2020	6	3.1%
2021	12	6.3%
2022	14	7.3%
2023	16	8.3%
2024	13	6.8%
2025partial year	9	4.7%

Which technologies does Saint-gobain Abrasifs patent most?

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 167

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 50

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 41

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 19

B28D - Working Stone OR Stone-like Materials 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 9

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 6

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 5

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 4

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 4

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 2

Top 15 of 36 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

Saint-gobain Abrasifs's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Saint-gobain Abrasifs's lead technology class is B24D (Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening), 87% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B24D
Ranked #2,069 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Saint-gobain Abrasifs against Opple Lighting Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.4/100 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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