Where does Universite de Lorraine rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Universite de Lorraine ranks #4,923 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 de Lorraine hold?

Universite de Lorraine holds 71 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 101 technology areas.

What is Universite de Lorraine's Innovation Score?

Universite de Lorraine has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Universite de Lorraine's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Universite de Lorraine's recent grant velocity is -19% 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 de Lorraine's patents?

Universite de Lorraine's patents average 13.3 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 de Lorraine 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

Universite de Lorraine

Q: What technology areas does Universite de Lorraine focus on?

Universite de Lorraine's top technology area is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General) with 11 patents, ranking #234 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 101 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 71 granted patents across 101 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: C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Universite ranks #4,923 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 71 patents across 101 technology areas.

#4,923
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4923 · Foreign Corporation #4,923 · 71 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 71 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,923/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Twelve
CPC-WIDE C23C · 101 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Twelve, 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.

How Universite’s 53.5 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 14.8 pts (28%) Velocity 5.7 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Thomson Reuters… · near

53
DP · near

53
Indigo · near

53
National University… · near

53
Universite de Lorraine · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Universite's Innovation Score is 53.5/100 (top 9% 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 Universite?

Each dot is one of Universite’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). Universite’s own 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Universite's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Universite de Lorraine received 29 grants versus 36 in 2015–2019 (-19% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 9 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 2. Lead class C23C accounts for 15.5% of the portfolio across 101 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Twelve, Inc. (#4,922) and Ypsomed AG (#4,930).

Universite's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Universite de Lorraine moved from 20 to 17 grants (0.85x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Twelve

71
Universiteit Antw…

71
University OF Sci…

71
Unverferth Manufa…

71
University of Lee…

71
Varroc Lighting S…

71
Yuan MEI

71
Ypsomed

71
Universite de Lor… ◀

71

What this shows Universite holds 71 patents at rank #4,926, 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 #4,926 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), Universite ranks #234 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

DP Technologies, Inc. 53 National University Corporation Kobe University 53 Indigo Ag, Inc. 53 Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

SIG Technology AG 13.3 avg Access Business Group International LLC 13.3 avg OCÉ-TECHNOLOGIES B.V. 13.4 avg Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg

Universite's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 de Lorraine patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	8.5%
2016	6	8.5%
2017	9	12.7%
2018	7	9.9%
2019	8	11.3%
2020	8	11.3%
2021	4	5.6%
2022	2	2.8%
2023	7	9.9%
2024	8	11.3%
2025partial year	6	8.5%

Which technologies does Universite de Lorraine patent most?

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 11

C07K - Peptides 11

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 10

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 6

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 6

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 6

B01D - Separation 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

Top 15 of 101 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

Universite de Lorraine's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Universite de Lorraine's lead technology class is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap), 15.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #4,923 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Universite de Lorraine against Twelve, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.5/100 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

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