Where does Solvay SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Solvay SA ranks #2,387 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 Solvay SA hold?

Solvay SA holds 164 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 85 technology areas.

What is Solvay SA's Innovation Score?

Solvay SA has an Innovation Score of 55.2 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Solvay SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Solvay SA's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Solvay SA's patents?

Solvay SA's patents average 15.8 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 Solvay SA 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

Solvay SA

Q: What technology areas does Solvay SA focus on?

Solvay SA's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 48 patents. Grants appear in 85 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 164 granted patents across 85 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Solvay ranks #2,387 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 164 patents across 85 technology areas.

#2,387
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.2/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2387 · Foreign Corporation #2,387 · 164 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 164 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,387/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NIO Technology (ANHUI)
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 85 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NIO Technology (ANHUI) Co., Ltd (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Queen Mary Universit… · near

55
Solvay · this assignee

55
Turner Broadcasting… · near

55
University OF Oregon · near

55
Young Optics · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Solvay's Innovation Score is 55.2/100 (top 7% 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.

How Solvay's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Solvay SA received 67 grants versus 95 in 2015–2019 (-29% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 25 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 3. Lead class Y02E accounts for 29.3% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: NIO Technology (ANHUI) Co., Ltd (#2,382) and Univation Technologies, LLC (#2,390).

Solvay's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Solvay SA moved from 58 to 27 grants (0.47x 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 #2,772. See the growth leaderboard.

NIO Technology (A…

164
Nippon Soda

164
SII Semiconductor

164
Smith & Nephew As…

164
Smiths Medical ASD

164
THE Board OF Trus…

164
THE Japan Steel W…

164
Univation

164
Solvay ◀

164

What this shows Solvay holds 164 patents at rank #2,386, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Solvay

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,386 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Young Optics Inc. 55 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. 55 University OF Oregon 55 Queen Mary University OF London 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. 15.8 avg Celgard, LLC 15.8 avg Ohio University 15.8 avg Fenwal, Inc. 15.8 avg

Solvay's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Solvay SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	14.0%
2016	17	10.4%
2017	18	11.0%
2018	19	11.6%
2019	18	11.0%
2020	25	15.2%
2021	15	9.1%
2022	19	11.6%
2023	3	1.8%
2024	5	3.0%
2025partial year	2	1.2%

Which technologies does Solvay SA patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 48

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 45

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 29

B01D - Separation 22

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 22

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 20

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 20

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 17

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 17

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 14

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 13

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 12

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

Top 15 of 85 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,387

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Solvay SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Solvay SA's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 29.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #2,387 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Solvay SA against NIO Technology (ANHUI) Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.2/100 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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