Where does System S.p.a. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), System S.p.a. ranks #20,485 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does System S.p.a. hold?

System S.p.a. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2020, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is System S.p.a.'s Innovation Score?

System S.p.a. has an Innovation Score of 32.6 out of 100 (top 58% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is System S.p.a.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

System S.p.a.'s recent grant velocity is -73% 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 System S.p.a.'s patents?

System S.p.a.'s patents average 13.0 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 System S.p.a. 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

System S.p.a.

Q: What technology areas does System S.p.a. focus on?

System S.p.a.'s top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2020. 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, System ranks #20,485 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 19 technology areas.

#20,485
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 58%
by Innovation Score (32.6/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: -73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20485 · Foreign Corporation #20,485 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,485/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH SafeAI
CPC-FOCUS B41J · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safeai, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
System S p a · this assignee

33
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows System's Innovation Score is 32.6/100 (top 58% 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.

Where System's grants concentrate

System S.p.a. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under B41J (TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, System sits between Strix Limited and Safran Passenger Innovations, Llc.

Strix

14
Sunfolding

14
Surys

14
Symbolics

14
Safeai

14
Safetraces

14
Safeworks

14
Safran Passenger…

14
System S P A ◀

14

What this shows System holds 14 patents at rank #20,410, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near System

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,410 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

System's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 Top 58% higher than 42% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

System S.p.a. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	7.1%
2017	2	14.3%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	6	42.9%
2020	3	21.4%

Which technologies does System S.p.a. patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS 8

B28B - SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER 5

B05C - APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL 2

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY 2

B41M - PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING, 2

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 2

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 2

B65G - TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS 2

B31B - MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER 2

B30B - PRESSES IN GENERAL 1

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 1

G06K - GRAPHICAL DATA READING ; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS 1

F16G - BELTS, CABLES, OR ROPES, PREDOMINANTLY USED FOR DRIVING PURPOSES; CHAINS; FITTINGS PREDOMINANTLY USED THEREFOR 1

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

B29D - PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,485

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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