Where does Somar Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Somar Corporation ranks #12,673 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 Somar Corporation hold?

Somar Corporation holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Somar Corporation's Innovation Score?

Somar Corporation has an Innovation Score of 39.7 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Somar Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Somar Corporation's recent grant velocity is -10% 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 Somar Corporation's patents?

Somar Corporation's patents average 9.8 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 Somar Corporation 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

Somar Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Somar Corporation focus on?

Somar Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 9 patents, ranking #320 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: 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 Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Somar ranks #12,673 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 25 technology areas.

#12,673
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.7/100): 9.8
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12673 · Foreign Corporation #12,673 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,673/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Showa Aluminum CAN
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 25 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Showa Aluminum CAN Corporation (±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 Somar’s 39.7 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 11.1 pts (28%) Velocity 5.0 pts (13%) Breadth 17.7 pts (45%) Claim depth 5.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Somar · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Somar's Innovation Score is 39.7/100 (top 37% 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 Somar?

Each dot is one of Somar’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). Somar’s own 9.8 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Somar's grants concentrate

Somar Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 37.5% of grants classified under 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 Materi). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Somar sits between Showa Aluminum CAN Corporation and Spinner GmbH.

Somar's three-year grant acceleration

Somar Corporation shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Showa Aluminum CAN

24
Sightline Interac…

24
SK Enpulse

24
SNF Group

24
Sookmyung Women's…

24
Span Tech

24
Specialty Operati…

24
Spinner

24
Somar ◀

24

What this shows Somar holds 24 patents at rank #12,663, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Somar

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,663 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Somar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Somar Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	8.3%
2018	3	12.5%
2019	5	20.8%
2020	1	4.2%
2021	2	8.3%
2022	2	8.3%
2023	3	12.5%
2024	1	4.2%
2025partial year	5	20.8%

Which technologies does Somar Corporation patent most?

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 9

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 5

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

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 2

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 2

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 1

C07K - Peptides 1

Top 15 of 25 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

Somar Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Somar Corporation's lead technology class is 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 Materi), 37.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #12,673 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Somar Corporation against Showa Aluminum CAN Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.7/100 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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