Where does Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 ranks #1,834 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 Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 hold?

Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 holds 221 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 126 technology areas.

What is Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1's Innovation Score?

Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 has an Innovation Score of 58.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1's recent grant velocity is -10% 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 Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1's patents?

Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1's patents average 15.0 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 Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 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 Government

Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1

Q: What technology areas does Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 focus on?

Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 62 patents. Grants appear in 126 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 221 granted patents across 126 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Universite ranks #1,834 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 221 patents across 126 technology areas.

#1,834
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.6/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1834 · Foreign Government #1,834 · 221 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 221 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,834/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brose Fahrzeugteile…
CPC-WIDE A61K · 126 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNGOV Foreign Gov
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft (±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
Loewenstein Medical… · near

59
SMA Solar Technology · near

59
Toyota Jidoshokki · near

59
True Manufacturing · near

59
Universite Claude… · this assignee

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Universite's Innovation Score is 58.6/100 (top 4% 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 Universite's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 received 96 grants versus 107 in 2015–2019 (-10% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 27 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 14. Lead class A61K accounts for 28.1% of the portfolio across 126 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft (#1,828) and Hosiden Corporation (#1,836).

Universite's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 moved from 65 to 58 grants (0.89x 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 #1,508. See the growth leaderboard.

Brose Fahrzeugtei…

221
Celanese Internat…

221
Cohesity

221
Royal Bank of Can…

221
Uipath

221
WHG Properties

221
ebm-papst Mulfing…

221
Universite Claude… ◀

221
Hosiden

220

What this shows Universite holds 221 patents at rank #1,832, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Universite

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,832 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

True Manufacturing Co., Inc. 59 SMA Solar Technology AG 59 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki 59 Loewenstein Medical Technology S.A. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

SolarCity Corporation 15.0 avg Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation 15.0 avg Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG 15.0 avg Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG 15.0 avg

Universite's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	9.5%
2016	25	11.3%
2017	20	9.0%
2018	14	6.3%
2019	27	12.2%
2020	22	10.0%
2021	16	7.2%
2022	18	8.1%
2023	23	10.4%
2024	17	7.7%
2025partial year	18	8.1%

Which technologies does Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 62

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 52

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 51

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 31

C07K - Peptides 28

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 26

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 19

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 18

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 14

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 14

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 13

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 12

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 12

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 11

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 11

Top 15 of 126 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,834

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.6 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

Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 28.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #1,834 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 against Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.6/100 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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