Where does SixPoint Materials, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SixPoint Materials, Inc. ranks #8,114 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 SixPoint Materials, Inc. hold?

SixPoint Materials, Inc. holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is SixPoint Materials, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

SixPoint Materials, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.1 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

SixPoint Materials, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -95% 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 SixPoint Materials, Inc.'s patents?

SixPoint Materials, Inc.'s patents average 17.8 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 SixPoint 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

SixPoint Materials, Inc.

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

SixPoint Materials, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 31 patents, ranking #16 of 414 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: 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 Polycrys).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sixpoint ranks #8,114 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 23 technology areas.

#8,114
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.1/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8114 · US Corporation #8,114 · 40 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,114/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Scandit
CPC-FOCUS C30B · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Scandit 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 Sixpoint’s 43.1 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 12.8 pts (30%) Velocity 2.7 pts (6%) Breadth 17.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Air Water · near

43
Mitsubishi Polyester… · near

43
National Nail · near

43
RedZone Robotics · near

43
SixPoint Materials · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sixpoint's Innovation Score is 43.1/100 (top 29% 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 Sixpoint?

Each dot is one of Sixpoint’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). Sixpoint’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sixpoint's grants concentrate

SixPoint Materials, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 77.5% of grants classified under 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 Polycrys). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Sixpoint sits between Scandit AG and StoreBound LLC.

Sixpoint's three-year grant acceleration

SixPoint Materials, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Scandit

40
Segway Technology

40
Silgan Plastics

40
Silixa

40
Skyhigh Networks

40
Somerset Therapeu…

40
Somos

40
Storebound

40
Sixpoint Materials ◀

40

What this shows SixPoint holds 40 patents at rank #8,113, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SixPoint

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,113 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C30B (Single-crystal Growth)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SixPoint, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C30B (Single-crystal Growth), SixPoint ranks #16 of 414 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

National Nail Corp. 43 RedZone Robotics, Inc. 43 Air Water Inc. 43 Mitsubishi Polyester Film GmbH 43

Sixpoint's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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SixPoint Materials, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.5%
2016	9	22.5%
2017	11	27.5%
2018	10	25.0%
2019	5	12.5%
2023	2	5.0%

Which technologies does SixPoint Materials, Inc. patent most?

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 31

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 28

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 23

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 10

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 7

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 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B28D - Working Stone OR Stone-like Materials 5

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 4

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

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

C01C - AMMONIA; CYANOGEN; Compounds Thereof 2

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Top 15 of 23 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

SixPoint Materials, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SixPoint Materials, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Polycrys), 77.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C30B
Ranked #8,114 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SixPoint Materials, Inc. against Scandit AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.1/100 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

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