Where does Afton Chemical Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Afton Chemical Corporation ranks #2,052 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 Afton Chemical Corporation hold?

Afton Chemical Corporation holds 193 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Afton Chemical Corporation's Innovation Score?

Afton Chemical Corporation has an Innovation Score of 59.0 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 Afton Chemical Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Afton Chemical Corporation's recent grant velocity is -12% 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 Afton Chemical Corporation's patents?

Afton Chemical Corporation's patents average 19.5 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 Afton Chemical Corporation 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

Afton Chemical Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Afton Chemical Corporation focus on?

Afton Chemical Corporation's top technology area is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition) with 142 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 193 granted patents across 35 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: C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Afton ranks #2,052 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 193 patents across 35 technology areas.

#2,052
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2052 · US Corporation #2,052 · 193 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 193 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,052/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Baoshan Iron & Steel
CPC-FOCUS C10M · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (±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
Firmenich · near

59
Nippon Paper… · near

59
Afton Chemical · this assignee

59
Seed Health · near

59
Vacuumschmelze & KG · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Afton's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (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.

Where Afton's grants concentrate

Afton Chemical Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 73.6% of grants classified under C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (26 grants) versus a trough of 12 in 2020. By volume, Afton sits between Telecommunication Systems, Inc. and Pivotal Software, Inc..

Afton's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Afton Chemical Corporation moved from 49 to 60 grants (1.22x 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 #753. See the growth leaderboard.

Telecommunication…

194
Tongji University

194
Tivo

194
Trimble Navigation

194
Baoshan Iron & St…

193
Hiwin

193
MCP IP

193
Pivotal Software

193
Afton Chemical ◀

193

What this shows Afton holds 193 patents at rank #2,052, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Afton

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,052 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10M (Lubricating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG 59 Seed Health, Inc. 59 Firmenich SA 59 Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.5 here).

Rehrig Pacific Company 19.5 avg Cohere Technologies, Inc. 19.5 avg Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. 19.5 avg Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 19.5 avg

Afton'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

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Afton Chemical Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	10.4%
2016	22	11.4%
2017	18	9.3%
2018	13	6.7%
2019	24	12.4%
2020	12	6.2%
2021	13	6.7%
2022	13	6.7%
2023	21	10.9%
2024	26	13.5%
2025partial year	11	5.7%

Which technologies does Afton Chemical Corporation patent most?

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 142

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 142

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 50

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 15

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 14

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 14

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 12

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 6

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 6

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 5

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 5

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 4

B01D - Separation 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,052

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.0 out of 100

View all rankings →

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Afton Chemical Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Afton Chemical Corporation's lead technology class is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition), 73.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10M
Ranked #2,052 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Afton Chemical Corporation against Telecommunication Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.