Where does Saipem S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Saipem S.A. ranks #4,836 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 Saipem S.A. hold?

Saipem S.A. holds 72 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 53 technology areas.

What is Saipem S.A.'s Innovation Score?

Saipem S.A. has an Innovation Score of 53.6 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 Saipem S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Saipem S.A.'s recent grant velocity is +13% 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 Saipem S.A.'s patents?

Saipem S.A.'s patents average 14.2 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 Saipem S.A. 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

Saipem S.A.

Q: What technology areas does Saipem S.A. focus on?

Saipem S.A.'s top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 37 patents, ranking #45 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 53 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 72 granted patents across 53 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Saipem ranks #4,836 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 72 patents across 53 technology areas.

#4,836
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.6/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4836 · Foreign Corporation #4,836 · 72 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 72 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,836/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pella
CPC-WIDE F16L · 53 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pella 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.

How Saipem’s 53.6 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 14.8 pts (28%) Velocity 5.3 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amazonen-werke H… · near

54
H C Starck · near

54
Saipem · this assignee

54
Stepan · near

54
Freeport Minerals · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Saipem's Innovation Score is 53.6/100 (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 Saipem?

Each dot is one of Saipem’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). Saipem’s own 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Saipem's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Saipem S.A. received 35 grants versus 31 in 2015–2019 (+13% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 10 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 2. Lead class F16L accounts for 51.4% of the portfolio across 53 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Pella Corporation (#4,831) and Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc. (#4,839).

Saipem's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Saipem S.A. moved from 25 to 20 grants (0.80x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Pella

72
Refractory Intell…

72
Research Institut…

72
Resmed Sensor

72
Samyang Holdings

72
Sealy Technology

72
Shenzhen Guanke

72
Shire Human Genet…

72
Saipem ◀

72

What this shows Saipem holds 72 patents at rank #4,835, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Saipem

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,835 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Saipem, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16L (Pipes), Saipem ranks #45 of 1,907 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

H.C. Starck Inc. 54 Stepan Company 54 Amazonen-werke H. Dreyer SE & Co. KG 54 Freeport Minerals Corporation 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. 14.2 avg Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. 14.2 avg Genesis Photonics Inc. 14.2 avg Syngenta Limited 14.2 avg

Saipem's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 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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Saipem S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	9.7%
2016	6	8.3%
2017	6	8.3%
2018	2	2.8%
2019	10	13.9%
2020	10	13.9%
2021	5	6.9%
2022	10	13.9%
2023	6	8.3%
2024	4	5.6%
2025partial year	6	8.3%

Which technologies does Saipem S.A. patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 37

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 25

B01D - Separation 10

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 10

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 9

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 6

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

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 5

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 4

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 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 4

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

Top 15 of 53 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

Saipem S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Saipem S.A.'s lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 51.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #4,836 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Saipem S.A. against Pella Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.6/100 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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