Where does Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. ranks #3,266 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 Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. hold?

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. holds 115 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.8 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -2% 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 Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.'s patents?

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.'s patents average 16.0 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 Simpson Strong-Tie Company, 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

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. focus on?

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.'s top technology area is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings) with 66 patents, ranking #3 of 849 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 115 granted patents across 35 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: E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Simpson ranks #3,266 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 115 patents across 35 technology areas.

#3,266
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -2%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3266 · US Corporation #3,266 · 115 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 115 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,266/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Novomatic
CPC-FOCUS E04B · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -2% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Novomatic AG (±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 Simpson’s 51.8 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 16.4 pts (32%) Velocity 4.9 pts (9%) Breadth 20.9 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FLSmidth A/S · near

52
Helmholtz-zentrum… · near

52
Riot Games · near

52
Simpson Strong-Tie · this assignee

52
Targus International · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Simpson's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (top 11% 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 Simpson?

Each dot is one of Simpson’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). Simpson’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Simpson's grants concentrate

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 57.4% of grants classified under E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (19 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2024. By volume, Simpson sits between Novomatic AG and Abbyy Development Inc..

Simpson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. moved from 37 to 27 grants (0.73x 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 #2,057. See the growth leaderboard.

Novomatic

115
Omron Automotive

115
Pi-design

115
Shofu

115
Singular Genomics…

115
Tmeic

115
UTI

115
Simpson Strong-tie ◀

115
Abbyy Development

114

What this shows Simpson holds 115 patents at rank #3,266, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Simpson

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,266 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04B (General Building Constructions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Simpson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E04B (General Building Constructions), Simpson ranks #3 of 849 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

FLSmidth A/S 52 Targus International LLC 52 Riot Games, Inc. 52 Helmholtz-zentrum Dresden-rossendorf E.V. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

U.S. Well Services, LLC 16.0 avg Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support 16.0 avg Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 16.0 avg Sysmex Corporation 16.0 avg

Simpson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	10.4%
2016	11	9.6%
2017	13	11.3%
2018	7	6.1%
2019	11	9.6%
2020	7	6.1%
2021	19	16.5%
2022	13	11.3%
2023	8	7.0%
2024	6	5.2%
2025partial year	8	7.0%

Which technologies does Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. patent most?

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 66

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 36

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 23

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 22

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 10

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 7

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 7

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 6

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

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 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

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

Top 15 of 35 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

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings), 57.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04B
Ranked #3,266 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. against Novomatic AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 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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