Where does United States Gypsum Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), United States Gypsum Company ranks #1,748 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 United States Gypsum Company hold?

United States Gypsum Company holds 233 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 88 technology areas.

What is United States Gypsum Company's Innovation Score?

United States Gypsum Company has an Innovation Score of 56.2 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is United States Gypsum Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

United States Gypsum Company's recent grant velocity is -16% 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 United States Gypsum Company's patents?

United States Gypsum Company's patents average 16.7 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 United States Gypsum Company 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

United States Gypsum Company

Q: What technology areas does United States Gypsum Company focus on?

United States Gypsum Company's top technology area is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone) with 132 patents. Grants appear in 88 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 233 granted patents across 88 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: C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, United ranks #1,748 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 233 patents across 88 technology areas.

#1,748
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.2/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1748 · US Corporation #1,748 · 233 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 233 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,748/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beihang University
CPC-WIDE C04B · 88 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beihang University (±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
Sony Pictures… · near

56
United States Gypsum · this assignee

56
University OF Ulsan… · near

56
Boehringer Ingelheim… · near

56
St Jude Medical… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows United's Innovation Score is 56.2/100 (top 6% 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.

How United's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, United States Gypsum Company received 103 grants versus 123 in 2015–2019 (-16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 37 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 10. Lead class C04B accounts for 56.7% of the portfolio across 88 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Beihang University (#1,744) and Medtronic Navigation, Inc. (#1,752).

United's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, United States Gypsum Company moved from 103 to 37 grants (0.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,932. See the growth leaderboard.

Beihang University

233
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233
Magna Internation…

233
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233
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233
Covestro

232
ENI S P A

232
Hydro-gear Partne…

232
Medtronic Navigat…

232

What this shows United holds 233 patents at rank #1,748, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near United

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,748 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for United, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

University OF Ulsan Foundation FOR Industry Cooperation 56 Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. 56 Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH 56 St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Kemira OYJ 16.7 avg Gree Holdings, Inc. 16.7 avg Cooper Technologies Company 16.7 avg Hutchinson Technology Incorporated 16.7 avg

United's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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United States Gypsum Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	5.6%
2016	16	6.9%
2017	28	12.0%
2018	29	12.4%
2019	37	15.9%
2020	35	15.0%
2021	31	13.3%
2022	14	6.0%
2023	13	5.6%
2024	10	4.3%
2025partial year	7	3.0%

Which technologies does United States Gypsum Company patent most?

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 132

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 78

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 65

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 63

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 60

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 55

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 45

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 40

B28C - Preparing CLAY; Producing Mixtures Containing Clay OR Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 19

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 17

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 16

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 15

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 15

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 13

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

Top 15 of 88 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,748

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

United States Gypsum Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

United States Gypsum Company's lead technology class is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone), 56.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #1,748 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare United States Gypsum Company against Beihang University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.2/100 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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