Where does Solvay USA Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Solvay USA Inc. ranks #11,812 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 USA Inc. hold?

Solvay USA Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Solvay USA Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Solvay USA Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.1 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Solvay USA Inc. focus on?

Solvay USA Inc.'s top technology area is H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices) with 11 patents, ranking #191 of 791 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Solvay USA Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Solvay USA Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -37% 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 USA Inc.'s patents?

Solvay USA Inc.'s patents average 17.3 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 USA 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 US Corporation

Solvay USA Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Solvay ranks #11,812 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 27 technology areas.

#11,812
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.1/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11812 · US Corporation #11,812 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,812/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SMed-TA/TD
CPC-FOCUS H10K · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SMed-TA/TD, LLC (±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 43.1 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 11.4 pts (26%) Velocity 3.0 pts (7%) Breadth 18.4 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Jeju National… · near

43
Protec · near

43
Solvay USA · this assignee

43
Spirox · near

43
Xiamen Water Nymph… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Solvay's Innovation Score is 43.1/100 (top 29% 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 17.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.4 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 USA Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 42.3% of grants classified under H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Solvay sits between Smiss Technology Co., Ltd. and Sunstar Inc..

Solvay's three-year grant acceleration

Solvay USA Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Smiss Technology

26
Smed-ta/TD

26
Softtronics

26
Solazyme

26
Song Chuan Precis…

26
Soracom

26
Staedtler Mars &…

26
Sunstar

26
Solvay USA ◀

26

What this shows Solvay holds 26 patents at rank #11,802, 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 #11,802 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices)

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). In H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices), Solvay ranks #191 of 791 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Jeju National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation 43 Xiamen Water Nymph Sanitary Technology Co., Ltd. 43 Spirox, Inc. 43 Protec Co., Ltd. 43

Solvay's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

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 USA Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	38.5%
2016	3	11.5%
2019	3	11.5%
2020	4	15.4%
2021	2	7.7%
2022	4	15.4%

Which technologies does Solvay USA Inc. patent most?

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 11

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 11

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 7

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 7

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 4

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 4

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 3

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 3

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 3

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

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

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

Top 15 of 27 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 USA Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Solvay USA Inc.'s lead technology class is H10K (Organic Electric Solid-state Devices), 42.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10K
Ranked #11,812 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Solvay USA Inc. against Smiss Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.1/100 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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