Where does Silcotek Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Silcotek Corp. ranks #12,668 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 Silcotek Corp. hold?

Silcotek Corp. holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Silcotek Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Silcotek Corp. has an Innovation Score of 39.4 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Silcotek Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Silcotek Corp.'s recent grant velocity is +56% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Silcotek Corp.'s patents?

Silcotek Corp.'s patents average 16.5 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 Silcotek Corp. 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

Silcotek Corp.

Q: What technology areas does Silcotek Corp. focus on?

Silcotek Corp.'s top technology area is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General) with 20 patents, ranking #140 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Silcotek ranks #12,668 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 16 technology areas.

#12,668
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.4/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12668 · US Corporation #12,668 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,668/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Scholle IPN IP BV
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Scholle IPN IP BV (±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 Silcotek’s 39.4 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 11.1 pts (28%) Velocity 4.2 pts (11%) Breadth 14.1 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Silcotek · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Silcotek's Innovation Score is 39.4/100 (top 38% 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 Silcotek?

Each dot is one of Silcotek’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). Silcotek’s own 16.5 claims/patent is at or below the 17.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Silcotek's grants concentrate

Silcotek Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Silcotek sits between Scholle IPN IP BV and Spin Transfer Technologies, Inc..

Silcotek's three-year grant acceleration

Silcotek Corp. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Scholle IPN IP BV

24
Scientific Games

24
Se-kure Controls

24
Shanghai XPT Tech…

24
Sioux Steel

24
Siwa

24
Southern Mills

24
Spin Transfer

24
Silcotek ◀

24

What this shows Silcotek holds 24 patents at rank #12,683, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Silcotek

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,683 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Silcotek's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Silcotek Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	4.2%
2017	1	4.2%
2018	3	12.5%
2019	4	16.7%
2020	4	16.7%
2021	3	12.5%
2022	2	8.3%
2023	2	8.3%
2024	3	12.5%
2025partial year	1	4.2%

Which technologies does Silcotek Corp. patent most?

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 20

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 5

C22C - Alloys 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

B01D - Separation 2

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Silcotek Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Silcotek Corp.'s lead technology class is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #12,668 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Silcotek Corp. against Scholle IPN IP BV, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.4/100 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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