Where does SIG Sauer Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SIG Sauer Inc. ranks #2,256 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 SIG Sauer Inc. hold?

SIG Sauer Inc. holds 174 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is SIG Sauer Inc.'s Innovation Score?

SIG Sauer Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.5 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SIG Sauer Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SIG Sauer Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -7% 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 SIG Sauer Inc.'s patents?

SIG Sauer Inc.'s patents average 14.7 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 SIG Sauer Inc. 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 US Corporation

SIG Sauer Inc.

Q: What technology areas does SIG Sauer Inc. focus on?

SIG Sauer Inc.'s top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 80 patents, ranking #2 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 174 granted patents across 17 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SIG ranks #2,256 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 174 patents across 17 technology areas.

#2,256
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.5/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2256 · US Corporation #2,256 · 174 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 174 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,256/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fresenius Kabi…
CPC-FOCUS F41A · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH (±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 SIG’s 46.5 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 17.8 pts (38%) Velocity 5.3 pts (11%) Breadth 14.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bedgear · near

47
Industrial Cooperati… · near

47
Kite Pharma · near

47
Nihon University · near

47
SIG Sauer · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SIG's Innovation Score is 46.5/100 (top 21% 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 SIG?

Each dot is one of SIG’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). SIG’s own 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where SIG's grants concentrate

SIG Sauer Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 46% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (26 grants) versus a trough of 11 in 2017. By volume, SIG sits between Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH and Yahoo Japan Corporation.

SIG's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SIG Sauer Inc. moved from 57 to 45 grants (0.79x 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 #1,875. See the growth leaderboard.

Fresenius Kabi De…

174
Joseph Joseph

174
NAN YA Plastics

174
Outotec (Finland)…

174
Stmicroelectronic…

174
Sumitomo Construc…

174
Valeo Equipements…

174
Yahoo Japan

174
SIG Sauer ◀

174

What this shows SIG holds 174 patents at rank #2,256, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SIG

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,256 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SIG, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), SIG ranks #2 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Bedgear, LLC 47 Industrial Cooperation Foundation Chonbuk National University 47 Kite Pharma, Inc. 47 Nihon University 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.7 here).

THE Toro Company 14.7 avg Sensors Incorporated 14.7 avg Entegris, Inc. 14.7 avg Ultradent Products, Inc. 14.7 avg

SIG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 21% higher than 79% 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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SIG Sauer Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	7.5%
2016	18	10.3%
2017	11	6.3%
2018	14	8.0%
2019	26	14.9%
2020	16	9.2%
2021	15	8.6%
2022	17	9.8%
2023	16	9.2%
2024	12	6.9%
2025partial year	16	9.2%

Which technologies does SIG Sauer Inc. patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 80

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 45

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 25

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 11

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 8

F41B - Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 4

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

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

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

H04B - Transmission 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

Top 15 of 17 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

SIG Sauer Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SIG Sauer Inc.'s lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 46% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #2,256 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SIG Sauer Inc. against Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.5/100 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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