Where does Suez International rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Suez International ranks #8,686 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 Suez International hold?

Suez International holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Suez International's Innovation Score?

Suez International has an Innovation Score of 48.8 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Suez International focus on?

Suez International's top technology area is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge) with 23 patents, ranking #40 of 1,366 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is Suez International's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Suez International's recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Suez International's patents?

Suez International's patents average 15.5 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 Suez International 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

Suez International

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 34 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: C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Suez ranks #8,686 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 34 technology areas.

#8,686
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.8/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8686 · Foreign Corporation #8,686 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,686/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Safe Foods
CPC-FOCUS C02F · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safe Foods 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 Suez’s 48.8 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 12.6 pts (26%) Velocity 6.3 pts (13%) Breadth 20.6 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
APR Beauty Group · near

49
Haldex Brake… · near

49
Hunan University OF… · near

49
Suez International · this assignee

49
Universidade DE… · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Suez's Innovation Score is 48.8/100 (top 16% 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 Suez?

Each dot is one of Suez’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). Suez’s own 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Suez's grants concentrate

Suez International is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 62.2% of grants classified under C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Suez sits between Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Rencol Limited and San Diego State University Research Foundation.

Suez's three-year grant acceleration

Suez International shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Saint-gobain Perf…

37
Shanghai Dianba N…

37
Shenzhen Poweroak…

37
Smeg S P A

37
Swarovski Lighting

37
Safe Foods

37
Saint-augustin Ca…

37
San Diego State U…

37
Suez International ◀

37

What this shows Suez holds 37 patents at rank #8,676, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Suez

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,676 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C02F (Treatment OF Water)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Suez, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C02F (Treatment OF Water), Suez ranks #40 of 1,366 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Hunan University OF Science AND Technology 49 Haldex Brake Products Aktiebolag 49 APR Beauty Group Inc. 49 Universidade DE Santiago DE Compostela 49

Suez's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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.

View data table

Suez International patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	5.4%
2018	1	2.7%
2019	6	16.2%
2020	7	18.9%
2021	4	10.8%
2022	2	5.4%
2023	8	21.6%
2024	6	16.2%
2025partial year	1	2.7%

Which technologies does Suez International patent most?

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 23

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 13

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 6

B01D - Separation 5

F23G - Cremation FURNACES; Consuming Waste Products BY Combustion 5

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

E03B - Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Suez International's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Suez International's lead technology class is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge), 62.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C02F
Ranked #8,686 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Suez International against Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Rencol Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.