Where does Saint-gobain Placo SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Saint-gobain Placo SAS ranks #12,653 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 Placo SAS hold?

Saint-gobain Placo SAS holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Saint-gobain Placo SAS's Innovation Score?

Saint-gobain Placo SAS has an Innovation Score of 42.2 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Saint-gobain Placo SAS's recent grant velocity is +18% 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 Placo SAS's patents?

Saint-gobain Placo SAS's patents average 15.7 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 Placo SAS 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 Placo SAS

Q: What technology areas does Saint-gobain Placo SAS focus on?

Saint-gobain Placo SAS'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 12 patents, ranking #117 of 1,052 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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, Saint-gobain ranks #12,653 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 18 technology areas.

#12,653
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.2/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12653 · Foreign Corporation #12,653 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,653/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Robotzone
CPC-FOCUS C04B · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Robotzone, LLC (±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 42.2 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 11.1 pts (26%) Velocity 6.7 pts (16%) Breadth 15.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Saint-gobain Placo SAS · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Saint-gobain's Innovation Score is 42.2/100 (top 31% 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 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 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 Placo SAS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 50% 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 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Saint-gobain sits between Robotzone, LLC and Shanghai Microport Medical (GROUP) Co., Ltd.

Saint-gobain's three-year grant acceleration

Saint-gobain Placo SAS shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

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What this shows Saint-gobain holds 24 patents at rank #12,652, 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 #12,652 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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

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

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Saint-gobain Placo SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	12.5%
2017	3	12.5%
2018	2	8.3%
2019	3	12.5%
2020	4	16.7%
2021	1	4.2%
2022	6	25.0%
2023	1	4.2%
2024	1	4.2%

Which technologies does Saint-gobain Placo SAS 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 12

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 11

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 4

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B28C - Preparing CLAY; Producing Mixtures Containing Clay OR Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 2

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

Top 15 of 18 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 Placo SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Saint-gobain Placo SAS'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), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #12,653 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Saint-gobain Placo SAS against Robotzone, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.2/100 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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