Where does Superior Essex International Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Superior Essex International Inc. ranks #5,890 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 Superior Essex International Inc. hold?

Superior Essex International Inc. holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Superior Essex International Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Superior Essex International Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Superior Essex International Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Superior Essex International Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Superior Essex International Inc.'s patents?

Superior Essex International Inc.'s patents average 19.1 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 Superior Essex International 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

Superior Essex International Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Superior Essex International Inc. focus on?

Superior Essex International Inc.'s top technology area is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties) with 47 patents, ranking #27 of 1,055 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Superior ranks #5,890 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,890
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5890 · US Corporation #5,890 · 58 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,890/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Seasonal Specialties
CPC-FOCUS H01B · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Seasonal Specialties, 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 Superior’s 43.3 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 14.1 pts (33%) Velocity 1.9 pts (4%) Breadth 15.8 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alfred Kärcher & KG · near

43
Autonomix Medical · near

43
Hitachi Medical · near

43
Superior Essex… · this assignee

43
uBeam · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Superior's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 Superior?

Each dot is one of Superior’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). Superior’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Superior's grants concentrate

Superior Essex International Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 81% of grants classified under H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Superior sits between Seasonal Specialties, LLC and TPR Co., Ltd..

Superior's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Superior Essex International Inc. moved from 24 to 7 grants (0.29x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Seasonal Specialt…

58
Sony Computer Ent…

58
Sony Europe

58
Speedtech Lights

58
THE Queen's Unive…

58
THE Timken

58
Total Raffinage C…

58
TPR

58
Superior Essex In… ◀

58

What this shows Superior holds 58 patents at rank #5,890, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Superior

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,890 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01B (Cables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Superior, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01B (Cables), Superior ranks #27 of 1,055 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

uBeam Inc. 43 Autonomix Medical, Inc. 43 Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG 43 Hitachi Medical Corporation 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Omni Medsci, Inc. 19.1 avg Pcms Holdings, Inc. 19.1 avg Sunnybrook Research Institute 19.1 avg WestRock MWV, LLC 19.1 avg

Superior's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Superior Essex International Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.4%
2016	5	8.6%
2017	6	10.3%
2018	12	20.7%
2019	10	17.2%
2020	10	17.2%
2021	4	6.9%
2022	6	10.3%
2024	1	1.7%
2025partial year	2	3.4%

Which technologies does Superior Essex International Inc. patent most?

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 47

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 29

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Superior Essex International Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Superior Essex International Inc.'s lead technology class is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties), 81% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01B
Ranked #5,890 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Superior Essex International Inc. against Seasonal Specialties, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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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