Where does Universite Francois Rabelais rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Universite Francois Rabelais ranks #23,606 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 Universite Francois Rabelais hold?

Universite Francois Rabelais holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Universite Francois Rabelais's Innovation Score?

Universite Francois Rabelais has an Innovation Score of 33.0 out of 100 (top 57% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Universite Francois Rabelais's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Universite Francois Rabelais's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Francois Rabelais's patents?

Universite Francois Rabelais's patents average 14.5 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 Francois Rabelais 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 Francois Rabelais

Q: What technology areas does Universite Francois Rabelais focus on?

Universite Francois Rabelais's top technology area is H10D (INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: H10D (INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Universite ranks #23,606 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 19 technology areas.

#23,606
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 57%
by Innovation Score (33.0/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23606 · Foreign Corporation #23,606 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,606/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH United Conveyor
CPC-FOCUS H10D · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: United Conveyor Llc (±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
Universite Francois… · this assignee

33
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Universite's Innovation Score is 33.0/100 (top 57% 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 Universite's grants concentrate

Universite Francois Rabelais is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under H10D (INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Universite sits between United Conveyor Llc and Unstoppable Domains Inc..

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12

What this shows Universite holds 12 patents at rank #23,601, 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 #23,601 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices)

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

Universite's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 Top 57% higher than 43% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

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 Francois Rabelais patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	4	33.3%
2017	3	25.0%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	2	16.7%

Which technologies does Universite Francois Rabelais patent most?

H10D - INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES 6

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 3

H01G - CAPACITORS; CAPACITORS, RECTIFIERS, DETECTORS, SWITCHING DEVICES, LIGHT-SENSITIVE OR TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE DEVICES OF THE ELECTROLYTIC TYPE 3

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 3

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 3

H04B - TRANSMISSION 1

B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS 1

C07F - ACYCLIC, CARBOCYCLIC OR HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING ELEMENTS OTHER THAN CARBON, HYDROGEN, HALOGEN, OXYGEN, NITROGEN, SULFUR, SELENIUM OR TELLURIUM 1

H03H - IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS 1

H04R - LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS 1

B06B - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY, ; e.g.; FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL 1

H10F - INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION 1

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES 1

C12Y - ENZYMES 1

C07K - PEPTIDES 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,606

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

33.0 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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