Where does Silicor Materials Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Silicor Materials Inc. ranks #25,224 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Silicor Materials Inc. hold?

Silicor Materials Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Silicor Materials Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Silicor Materials Inc. has an Innovation Score of 29.1 out of 100 (top 71% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Silicor Materials Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Silicor Materials Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -90% 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 Silicor Materials Inc.'s patents?

Silicor Materials Inc.'s patents average 13.7 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 Silicor Materials 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

Silicor Materials Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Silicor Materials Inc. focus on?

Silicor Materials Inc.'s top technology area is C01B (NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: C01B (NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Silicor ranks #25,224 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 12 technology areas.

#25,224
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 71%
by Innovation Score (29.1/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25224 · US Corporation #25,224 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,224/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Siemens Medical Inst…
CPC-FOCUS C01B · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Silicor Materials · this assignee

29
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Silicor's Innovation Score is 29.1/100 (top 71% 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.

Where Silicor's grants concentrate

Silicor Materials Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under C01B (NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Silicor sits between Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd. and Skedco, Inc..

Siemens Medical I…

11
Siesta Medical

11
Signet Health

11
Signiant

11
Silverside Detect…

11
Simbol

11
Sintetica

11
Skedco

11
Silicor Materials ◀

11

What this shows Silicor holds 11 patents at rank #25,264, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Silicor

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,264 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C01B (Non-metallic Elements)

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

Silicor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 Top 71% higher than 29% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Silicor Materials Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2016	3	27.3%
2017	5	45.5%
2020	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Silicor Materials Inc. patent most?

C01B - NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C 7

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 7

B22D - CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES 3

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 3

H10F - INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION 3

C22B - PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS ; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS 3

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 2

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 1

C22C - ALLOYS 1

C01P - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO STRUCTURAL AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF SOLID INORGANIC COMPOUNDS 1

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

F27B - FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,224

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

29.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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