Where does Somfy Activites SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Somfy Activites SA ranks #4,264 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 Somfy Activites SA hold?

Somfy Activites SA holds 84 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is Somfy Activites SA's Innovation Score?

Somfy Activites SA has an Innovation Score of 58.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Somfy Activites SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Somfy Activites SA's recent grant velocity is +871% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Somfy Activites SA's patents?

Somfy Activites SA's patents average 13.3 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 Somfy Activites 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

Somfy Activites SA

Q: What technology areas does Somfy Activites SA focus on?

Somfy Activites SA's top technology area is E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates) with 41 patents, ranking #18 of 637 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 84 granted patents across 42 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Somfy ranks #4,264 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 84 patents across 42 technology areas.

#4,264
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.5/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: +871%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4264 · Foreign Corporation #4,264 · 84 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 84 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,264/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Refinitiv US…
CPC-WIDE E06B · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +871% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Refinitiv US Organization 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 Somfy’s 58.5 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 15.3 pts (26%) Velocity 12.3 pts (21%) Breadth 22.9 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mentor Acquisition One · near

59
Nippon Electric Glass · near

59
Somfy Activites · this assignee

59
Bruker Nano · near

59
Clemson University · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Somfy's Innovation Score is 58.5/100 (top 4% 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 Somfy?

Each dot is one of Somfy’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). Somfy’s own 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 17.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Somfy's grants concentrate

Somfy Activites SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 48.8% of grants classified under E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Somfy sits between Refinitiv US Organization LLC and TP Lab, Inc..

Somfy's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Somfy Activites SA moved from 26 to 48 grants (1.85x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Refinitiv US Orga…

84
Riddell

84
Shanghai Hengrui…

84
Soclean

84
Spatial Digital S…

84
Seville Classics

84
Tower Partners Se…

84
TP Lab

84
Somfy Activites ◀

84

What this shows Somfy holds 84 patents at rank #4,263, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Somfy

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,263 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Somfy, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings), Somfy ranks #18 of 637 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. 59 Clemson University 59 Bruker Nano, Inc. 59 Mentor Acquisition One, LLC 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

TDK—Micronas GmbH 13.3 avg Achates Power, Inc. 13.3 avg Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie S.R.L. 13.3 avg Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. 13.3 avg

Somfy's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Somfy Activites SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	1.2%
2019	6	7.1%
2020	9	10.7%
2021	11	13.1%
2022	19	22.6%
2023	15	17.9%
2024	14	16.7%
2025partial year	9	10.7%

Which technologies does Somfy Activites SA patent most?

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 41

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 11

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 5

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 4

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 4

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 3

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 3

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 2

Top 15 of 42 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

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Somfy Activites SA's lead technology class is E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates), 48.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E06B
Ranked #4,264 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Somfy Activites SA against Refinitiv US Organization LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.5/100 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

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