Where does Solutia Canada Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Solutia Canada Inc. ranks #37,623 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 Solutia Canada Inc. hold?

Solutia Canada Inc. holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Solutia Canada Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Solutia Canada Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.5 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Solutia Canada Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Solutia Canada Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Solutia Canada Inc.'s patents?

Solutia Canada Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 Solutia Canada 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 Foreign Corporation

Solutia Canada Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Solutia Canada Inc. focus on?

Solutia Canada Inc.'s top technology area is G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters) with 5 patents, ranking #466 of 1,354 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 11 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. Primary class: G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optica).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Solutia ranks #37,623 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 11 technology areas.

#37,623
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.5/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R37623 · Foreign Corporation #37,623 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #37,623/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Solid Control…
CPC-FOCUS G02F · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2024 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Solid Control Holding B.V. (±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 Solutia’s 49.5 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 7.2 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 11.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Solutia Canada · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Solutia's Innovation Score is 49.5/100 (top 14% 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 Solutia?

Each dot is one of Solutia’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). Solutia’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Solutia's grants concentrate

Solutia Canada Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optica). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Solutia sits between Solid Control Holding B.V. and Sonoco Plastics, Inc..

Solutia's three-year grant acceleration

Solutia Canada Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Solid Control Hol…

7
Solid Proof

7
Solite Internatio…

7
Solus

7
Sonacare Medical

7
Soniphi

7
Sonivate Medical

7
Sonoco Plastics

7
Solutia Canada ◀

7

What this shows Solutia holds 7 patents at rank #37,679, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Solutia

By rank, the assignees closest to #37,679 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light…)

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

Solutia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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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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Solutia Canada Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	14.3%
2022	2	28.6%
2023	3	42.9%
2024	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Solutia Canada Inc. patent most?

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

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 1

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 1

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Solutia Canada Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Solutia Canada Inc.'s lead technology class is G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optica), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02F
Ranked #37,623 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Solutia Canada Inc. against Solid Control Holding B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.5/100 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.