Where does Saint-Gobain Placo rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Saint-Gobain Placo ranks #7,470 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 hold?

Saint-Gobain Placo holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Saint-Gobain Placo's Innovation Score?

Saint-Gobain Placo has an Innovation Score of 53.1 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Saint-Gobain Placo's recent grant velocity is +131% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Saint-Gobain Placo's patents?

Saint-Gobain Placo's patents average 17.3 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 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

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

Saint-Gobain Placo'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 19 patents, ranking #68 of 1,052 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 45 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: 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 #7,470 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 45 technology areas.

#7,470
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.1/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: +131%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7470 · Foreign Corporation #7,470 · 44 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,470/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Scholl's Wellness
CPC-WIDE C04B · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +131% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Scholl's Wellness Company 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 53.1 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 13.1 pts (25%) Velocity 5.9 pts (11%) Breadth 23.7 pts (45%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nippon Steel… · near

53
Safran Landing… · near

53
Saint-Gobain Placo · this assignee

53
W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos · near

53
European Space Agency · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Saint-gobain's Innovation Score is 53.1/100 (top 9% 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 17.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 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 is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 43.2% 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 2020 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Saint-gobain sits between SKF Aerospace France S.A.S and Smiths Detection-Watford Limited.

Saint-gobain's three-year grant acceleration

Saint-Gobain Placo shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

SKF Aerospace Fra…

44
Socpra Sciences E…

44
SR Holdings

44
SUN Pharma Advanc…

44
Scholl's Wellness

44
Servicenow Canada

44
Sift Science

44
Smiths Detection-…

44
Saint-gobain Placo ◀

44

What this shows Saint-Gobain holds 44 patents at rank #7,479, 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 #7,479 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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 C04B (Lime), Saint-Gobain ranks #68 of 1,052 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH 53 European Space Agency 53 Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. 53 Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corporation 53

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

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 Placo patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.3%
2016	2	4.5%
2017	2	4.5%
2018	6	13.6%
2019	2	4.5%
2020	10	22.7%
2021	5	11.4%
2022	3	6.8%
2023	6	13.6%
2024	6	13.6%
2025partial year	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Saint-Gobain Placo 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 19

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 12

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 6

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 5

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 3

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 2

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 2

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 2

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

Saint-Gobain Placo's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Saint-Gobain Placo'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), 43.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #7,470 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Saint-Gobain Placo against SKF Aerospace France S.A.S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.1/100 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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