Where does Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. ranks #5,629 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 Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. hold?

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. holds 61 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 50.3 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. focus on?

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping) with 28 patents, ranking #18 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

Is Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -80% 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 Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.8 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 Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. 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

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 61 granted patents across 56 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Samsung ranks #5,629 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 61 patents across 56 technology areas.

#5,629
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100): 9.8
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5629 · Foreign Corporation #5,629 · 61 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 61 grants
UPPER-Q #5,629/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Qumulo
CPC-WIDE B63B · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Qumulo, Inc. (±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 Samsung’s 50.3 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 14.3 pts (28%) Velocity 5.2 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (50%) Claim depth 5.9 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
A123 Systems · near

50
Nantero · near

50
RefleXion Medical · near

50
Samsung Heavy IND · this assignee

50
SSenStone · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Samsung's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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 Samsung?

Each dot is one of Samsung’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). Samsung’s own 9.8 claims/patent is at or below the 13.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Samsung's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. received 10 grants versus 51 in 2015–2019 (-80% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 14 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 2. Lead class B63B accounts for 45.9% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Qumulo, Inc. (#5,623) and StreetCar ORV, LLC (#5,631).

Samsung's three-year grant acceleration

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Qumulo

61
Raytheon Canada

61
Ring Container

61
Rubbermaid Commer…

61
Sangamo Bioscienc…

61
Science Applicati…

61
Server Technology

61
Streetcar ORV

61
Samsung Heavy IND ◀

61

What this shows Samsung holds 61 patents at rank #5,627, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Samsung

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,627 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Samsung, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels), Samsung ranks #18 of 645 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

RefleXion Medical, Inc. 50 Nantero, Inc. 50 A123 Systems LLC 50 SSenStone Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.8 here).

CLO Virtual Fashion Inc. 9.8 avg Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation Of Sejong University 9.8 avg Daishinku Corporation 9.8 avg Em-tech Co., Ltd 9.8 avg

Samsung's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	19.7%
2016	8	13.1%
2017	14	23.0%
2018	11	18.0%
2019	6	9.8%
2020	3	4.9%
2022	2	3.3%
2023	3	4.9%
2024	2	3.3%

Which technologies does Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. patent most?

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 28

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 16

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 7

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 5

F03D - Wind Motors 5

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 4

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 4

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 3

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 3

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 3

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

Top 15 of 56 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

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping), 45.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63B
Ranked #5,629 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. against Qumulo, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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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