Where does Solvay (Société Anonyme) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Solvay (Société Anonyme) ranks #33,379 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 (Société Anonyme) hold?

Solvay (Société Anonyme) holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Solvay (Société Anonyme)'s Innovation Score?

Solvay (Société Anonyme) has an Innovation Score of 33.4 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Solvay (Société Anonyme)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Solvay (Société Anonyme)'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 (Société Anonyme)'s patents?

Solvay (Société Anonyme)'s patents average 14.8 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 (Société Anonyme) 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 (Société Anonyme)

Q: What technology areas does Solvay (Société Anonyme) focus on?

Solvay (Société Anonyme)'s top technology area is C07F (Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium) with 2 patents, ranking #637 of 1,317 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: C07F (Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Solvay ranks #33,379 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 23 technology areas.

#33,379
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.4/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33379 · Foreign Corporation #33,379 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #33,379/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SO Spark
CPC-FOCUS C07F · 23 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SO Spark 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.

How Solvay’s 33.4 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 7.6 pts (23%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 17.0 pts (51%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Solvay's Innovation Score is 33.4/100 (44th 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 Solvay?

Each dot is one of Solvay’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). Solvay’s own 14.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Solvay's grants concentrate

Solvay (Société Anonyme) is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 25% of grants classified under C07F (Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Solvay sits between SO Spark Ltd. and Sophion Bioscience A/S.

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Solvcor

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Sonicedge

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Sophia Genetics

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What this shows Solvay holds 8 patents at rank #33,242, 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 #33,242 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07F (Acyclic)

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

Solvay's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

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 (Société Anonyme) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	37.5%
2016	4	50.0%
2017	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Solvay (Société Anonyme) patent most?

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 2

B01D - Separation 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 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

Solvay (Société Anonyme)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Solvay (Société Anonyme)'s lead technology class is C07F (Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium), 25% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07F
Ranked #33,379 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Solvay (Société Anonyme) against SO Spark Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.4/100 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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