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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Saipem S.P.A. ranks #2,797 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.P.A. hold?

Saipem S.P.A. holds 138 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 86 technology areas.

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

Saipem S.P.A. has an Innovation Score of 60.0 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%).

Is Saipem S.P.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Saipem S.P.A.'s recent grant velocity is -8% 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 Saipem S.P.A.'s patents?

Saipem S.P.A.'s patents average 20.7 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 Saipem S.P.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.P.A.

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

Saipem S.P.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 74 patents, ranking #10 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 86 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 138 granted patents across 86 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 #2,797 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 138 patents across 86 technology areas.

#2,797
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (60.0/100): 20.7
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2797 · Foreign Corporation #2,797 · 138 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 138 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,797/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Multivac Sepp…
CPC-WIDE F16L · 86 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller Se & Co. KG (±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 60.0 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 17.0 pts (28%) Velocity 5.5 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 12.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canoo · near

60
JX Advanced Metals · near

60
Oregon State… · near

60
Ridge Tool · near

60
Saipem S P A · this assignee

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Saipem's Innovation Score is 60.0/100 (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 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 20.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 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.P.A. received 65 grants versus 71 in 2015–2019 (-8% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 8. Lead class F16L accounts for 53.6% of the portfolio across 86 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller Se & Co. KG (#2,793) and Young Optics Inc. (#2,801).

Saipem's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Saipem S.P.A. moved from 46 to 38 grants (0.83x 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 #1,743. See the growth leaderboard.

Multivac Sepp Hag…

138
Qiagen

138
RTC Industries

138
Safran Aero Boost…

138
Sandvik Mining an…

138
Umicore

138
Visa U

138
Young Optics

138
Saipem S P A ◀

138

What this shows Saipem holds 138 patents at rank #2,797, 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 #2,797 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 #10 of 1,907 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Oregon State University 60 Ridge Tool Company 60 JX Advanced Metals Corporation 60 Canoo Technologies Inc. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.7 here).

Educational Testing Service 20.7 avg Alitheon, Inc. 20.7 avg Harnischfeger Technologies, Inc. 20.7 avg Gambro Lundia AB 20.7 avg

Saipem's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 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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Saipem S.P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	12.3%
2016	18	13.0%
2017	8	5.8%
2018	9	6.5%
2019	19	13.8%
2020	16	11.6%
2021	11	8.0%
2022	13	9.4%
2023	11	8.0%
2024	14	10.1%
2025partial year	2	1.4%

Which technologies does Saipem S.P.A. patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 74

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 32

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 18

B01D - Separation 16

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 16

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

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 11

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 10

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 7

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 7

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 6

B63G - Offensive OR Defensive Arrangements ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; Aircraft Carriers 6

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 5

Top 15 of 86 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.P.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Saipem S.P.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), 53.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #2,797 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Saipem S.P.A. against Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller Se & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.0/100 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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