Where does Smart N.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Smart N.V. ranks #9,377 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 Smart N.V. hold?

Smart N.V. holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2024, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Smart N.V.'s Innovation Score?

Smart N.V. has an Innovation Score of 21.3 out of 100 (8th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Smart N.V. focus on?

Smart N.V. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Smart N.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Smart N.V..

What does claim depth mean for Smart N.V.'s patents?

Smart N.V.'s patents average 1.0 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 Smart N.V. 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 Foreign Corporation

Smart N.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Smart ranks #9,377 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 0 technology areas.

#9,377
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 8th percentile
by Innovation Score (21.3/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9377 · Foreign Corporation #9,377 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,377/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Santa Clara University
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-THIN 21.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2024 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 8/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Santa Clara University (±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 Smart’s 21.3 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 12.3 pts (58%) Velocity 8.4 pts (39%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (3%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Skunklock · near

21
Smart · this assignee

21
KAZ Europe SÀRL · near

21
Guangdong SunRise… · near

21
Athena · near

21
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smart's Innovation Score is 21.3/100 (8th percentile 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 Smart?

Each dot is one of Smart’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). Smart’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 11.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Smart's grants concentrate

Smart N.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2021 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Smart sits between Santa Clara University and Steris Corporation.

Smart's three-year grant acceleration

Smart N.V. shows 19 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Santa Clara Unive…

34
SDG

34
Shenzhen TCL Digi…

34
Shimano Component…

34
Sophia & William…

34
Sophia School

34
Stego-holding

34
Steris

34
Smart ◀

34

What this shows Smart holds 34 patents at rank #9,367, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Smart

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,367 in granted patent volume.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Smart, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (21 here).

KAZ Europe SÀRL 21 Guangdong SunRise Industrial Co., Ltd. 21 Skunklock, Inc. 21 Athena AG, Inc. 21

Smart's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

21 8th percentile higher than 8% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Smart N.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	15	44.1%
2022	10	29.4%
2023	7	20.6%
2024	2	5.9%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Smart N.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #9,377 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Smart N.V. against Santa Clara University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 21.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.