Where does Vitro Flat Glass LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vitro Flat Glass LLC ranks #4,498 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 Vitro Flat Glass LLC hold?

Vitro Flat Glass LLC holds 79 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Vitro Flat Glass LLC's Innovation Score?

Vitro Flat Glass LLC has an Innovation Score of 56.5 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 Vitro Flat Glass LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vitro Flat Glass LLC's recent grant velocity is +1350% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Vitro Flat Glass LLC's patents?

Vitro Flat Glass LLC'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 Vitro Flat Glass LLC 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

Vitro Flat Glass LLC

Q: What technology areas does Vitro Flat Glass LLC focus on?

Vitro Flat Glass LLC's top technology area is C03C (Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials) with 57 patents. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 79 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: C03C (Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other MA).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vitro ranks #4,498 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 79 patents across 37 technology areas.

#4,498
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.5/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +1350%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4498 · US Corporation #4,498 · 79 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 79 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,498/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Thorlabs
CPC-FOCUS C03C · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1350% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Thorlabs, 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
THE Hillman Group · near

57
Vitro Flat Glass · this assignee

57
Cepheid · near

57
Galvani Bioelectronics · near

57
State Grid of China · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vitro's Innovation Score is 56.5/100 (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.

Where Vitro's grants concentrate

Vitro Flat Glass LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 72.2% of grants classified under C03C (Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other MA). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (13 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2019. By volume, Vitro sits between Thorlabs, Inc. and Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi VE Ticaret Anonim Sirketi.

Vitro's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Vitro Flat Glass LLC moved from 25 to 37 grants (1.48x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Thorlabs

79
University OF Haw…

79
Unitedhealth Grou…

79
Vitra Patente

79
Westport Power

79
Zhejiang Universi…

79
Vitro Flat Glass ◀

79
Alclear

78
Aselsan Elektroni…

78

What this shows Vitro holds 79 patents at rank #4,498, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vitro

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,498 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C03C (Chemical Composition OF Glasses)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

THE Hillman Group, Inc. 57 Galvani Bioelectronics Limited 57 Cepheid 57 State Grid Corporation of China 57

Similar claim depth

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

West Virginia University 16.7 avg Sercel, Inc 16.7 avg Guangzhou China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd. 16.7 avg Insyde Software Corp. 16.7 avg

Vitro's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 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 · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Vitro Flat Glass LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	4	5.1%
2020	13	16.5%
2021	8	10.1%
2022	13	16.5%
2023	12	15.2%
2024	12	15.2%
2025partial year	17	21.5%

Which technologies does Vitro Flat Glass LLC patent most?

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 57

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 27

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 15

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 14

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 11

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 10

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 9

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 8

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 8

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 7

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 6

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 5

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 4

Top 15 of 37 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,498

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.5 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

Vitro Flat Glass LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vitro Flat Glass LLC's lead technology class is C03C (Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other MA), 72.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C03C
Ranked #4,498 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vitro Flat Glass LLC against Thorlabs, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.5/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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