Where does Saint-gobain Glass France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Saint-gobain Glass France ranks #550 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 Glass France hold?

Saint-gobain Glass France holds 820 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 150 technology areas.

What is Saint-gobain Glass France's Innovation Score?

Saint-gobain Glass France has an Innovation Score of 64.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Saint-gobain Glass France's recent grant velocity is +7% 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 Saint-gobain Glass France's patents?

Saint-gobain Glass France'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 Glass France 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 Glass France

Q: What technology areas does Saint-gobain Glass France focus on?

Saint-gobain Glass France's top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 388 patents. Grants appear in 150 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 820 granted patents across 150 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Saint-gobain ranks #550 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 820 patents across 150 technology areas.

#550
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.8/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R550 · Foreign Corporation #550 · 820 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 820 grants
TOP-DECILE #550/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mitutoyo
CPC-WIDE B32B · 150 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mitutoyo Corporation (±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
Audi · near

65
North Carolina… · near

65
Danfoss Power… · near

65
Saint-gobain Glass… · this assignee

65
Siemens Medical… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Saint-gobain's Innovation Score is 64.8/100 (top 1% 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.

How Saint-gobain's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Saint-gobain Glass France received 395 grants versus 370 in 2015–2019 (+7% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 100 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 50. Lead class B32B accounts for 47.3% of the portfolio across 150 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (#546) and C.R. Bard, Inc. (#554).

Saint-gobain's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Saint-gobain Glass France moved from 267 to 228 grants (0.85x 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 #1,648. See the growth leaderboard.

Industry-academic…

823
NGK Spark Plug

823
National Institut…

822
Mitutoyo

820
Saint-gobain Glas… ◀

820
Sony Mobile Commu…

815
Fuji

812
Lsis

812
C R Bard

808

What this shows Saint-gobain holds 820 patents at rank #550, 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 #550 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. 65 Danfoss Power Solutions II Technology A/S 65 North Carolina State University 65 Audi AG 65

Similar claim depth

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

Salesforce.com, Inc. 18.1 avg Commonwealth Scientific AND Industrial Research Organisation 18.1 avg Welltec A/S 18.1 avg Sony Electronics 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)

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Glass France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	81	9.9%
2016	65	7.9%
2017	74	9.0%
2018	50	6.1%
2019	100	12.2%
2020	97	11.8%
2021	70	8.5%
2022	85	10.4%
2023	53	6.5%
2024	90	11.0%
2025partial year	55	6.7%

Which technologies does Saint-gobain Glass France patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 388

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 218

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 166

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 135

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 124

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 115

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 106

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 79

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 59

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 53

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 49

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 46

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 42

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 42

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 38

Top 15 of 150 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#550

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

64.8 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

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

Saint-gobain Glass France's lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 47.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #550 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Saint-gobain Glass France against Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.8/100 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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