Where does Tarkett Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tarkett Inc. ranks #20,492 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 Tarkett Inc. hold?

Tarkett Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Tarkett Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Tarkett Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Tarkett Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tarkett Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Tarkett Inc.'s patents?

Tarkett Inc.'s patents average 12.4 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 Tarkett 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 Foreign Corporation

Tarkett Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Tarkett Inc. focus on?

Tarkett Inc.'s top technology area is E01C (CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: E01C (CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tarkett ranks #20,492 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 24 technology areas.

#20,492
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 12.4
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20492 · Foreign Corporation #20,492 · 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 #20,492/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH TABULA
CPC-FOCUS E01C · 24 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tabula, 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
Tarkett · this assignee

36
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Tarkett's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 47% 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 Tarkett's grants concentrate

Tarkett Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under E01C (CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Tarkett sits between T&T Engineering Services, Inc. and Technetix B.v..

T&T Engineering S…

14
Tabula

14
TADA Cognitive So…

14
Tanos Verpacken O…

14
Tayca

14
TBI Innovations

14
TBM

14
Technetix B V

14
Tarkett ◀

14

What this shows Tarkett holds 14 patents at rank #20,487, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tarkett

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,487 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E01C (Construction OF)

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

Tarkett's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Tarkett Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	35.7%
2016	3	21.4%
2018	2	14.3%
2020	3	21.4%
2022	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Tarkett Inc. patent most?

E01C - CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR 8

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 5

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 5

D02G - CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS 4

D01D - MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS 4

B29L - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES 3

A01D - HARVESTING; MOWING 2

B29B - PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BE SHAPED; MAKING GRANULES OR PREFORMS; RECOVERY OF PLASTICS OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF WASTE MATERIAL CONTAINING PLASTICS 2

D10B - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES 2

E04F - FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS 2

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 2

B29K - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES B29B, B29C OR B29D, RELATING TO MOULDING MATERIALS OR TO MATERIALS FOR ; MOULDS, ; REINFORCEMENTS, FILLERS OR PREFORMED PARTS, e.g. INSERTS 2

F26B - DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM 1

B07B - SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL 1

Y02W - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT 1

Top 15 of 24 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,492

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

36.4 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

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