Where does SMR Patents S.à.r.l. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SMR Patents S.à.r.l. ranks #2,223 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 SMR Patents S.à.r.l. hold?

SMR Patents S.à.r.l. holds 177 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 66 technology areas.

What is SMR Patents S.à.r.l.'s Innovation Score?

SMR Patents S.à.r.l. has an Innovation Score of 56.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does SMR Patents S.à.r.l. focus on?

SMR Patents S.à.r.l.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 148 patents, ranking #37 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 66 CPC subclasses total.

Is SMR Patents S.à.r.l.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SMR Patents S.à.r.l.'s recent grant velocity is +54% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for SMR Patents S.à.r.l.'s patents?

SMR Patents S.à.r.l.'s patents average 17.6 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 SMR Patents S.à.r.l. 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

SMR Patents S.à.r.l.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 177 granted patents across 66 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SMR ranks #2,223 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 177 patents across 66 technology areas.

#2,223
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.0/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: +54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2223 · Foreign Corporation #2,223 · 177 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 177 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,223/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Archer-daniels-midland
CPC-WIDE B60R · 66 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Archer-daniels-midland Company (±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 SMR’s 56.0 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 17.9 pts (32%) Velocity 2.5 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bar-Ilan University · near

56
Optos · near

56
SMR Patents S à r l · this assignee

56
Universite DE… · near

56
Valeo Equipements… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SMR's Innovation Score is 56.0/100 (top 6% 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 SMR?

Each dot is one of SMR’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). SMR’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How SMR's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, SMR Patents S.à.r.l. received 106 grants versus 69 in 2015–2019 (+54% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 41 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 5. Lead class B60R accounts for 83.6% of the portfolio across 66 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Archer-daniels-midland Company (#2,219) and Institute OF Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan (#2,227).

SMR's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SMR Patents S.à.r.l. moved from 97 to 37 grants (0.38x 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 #2,905. See the growth leaderboard.

Archer-daniels-mi…

177
Bright Data

177
Interface Optoele…

177
LS Electric

177
TRW Automotive

177
VID Scale

177
Wabco

177
SMR Patents S à r… ◀

177
Institute OF Nucl…

176

What this shows SMR holds 177 patents at rank #2,223, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SMR

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,223 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SMR, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), SMR ranks #37 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur 56 Universite DE Strasbourg 56 Optos PLC 56 Bar-Ilan University 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

McMaster University 17.6 avg Swimc LLC 17.6 avg Medtronic Xomed, Inc. 17.6 avg Acclarent, Inc. 17.6 avg

SMR's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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SMR Patents S.à.r.l. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	4.0%
2016	5	2.8%
2017	10	5.6%
2018	19	10.7%
2019	28	15.8%
2020	41	23.2%
2021	28	15.8%
2022	18	10.2%
2023	9	5.1%
2024	10	5.6%
2025partial year	2	1.1%

Which technologies does SMR Patents S.à.r.l. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 148

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 66

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 44

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 36

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 35

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 17

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 13

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 12

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 10

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 8

Top 15 of 66 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

SMR Patents S.à.r.l.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SMR Patents S.à.r.l.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 83.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #2,223 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SMR Patents S.à.r.l. against Archer-daniels-midland Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.0/100 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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