Where does Angus Chemical Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Angus Chemical Company ranks #11,162 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 Angus Chemical Company hold?

Angus Chemical Company holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Angus Chemical Company's Innovation Score?

Angus Chemical Company has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Angus Chemical Company focus on?

Angus Chemical Company's top technology area is C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds) with 18 patents, ranking #252 of 2,691 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Angus Chemical Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Angus Chemical Company's recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Angus Chemical Company's patents?

Angus Chemical Company's patents average 15.8 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 Angus Chemical Company 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

Angus Chemical Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Angus ranks #11,162 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 16 technology areas.

#11,162
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11162 · US Corporation #11,162 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,162/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AGC Vidros DO…
CPC-FOCUS C07C · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AGC Vidros DO Brasil Ltda (±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 Angus’s 41.8 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 11.5 pts (28%) Velocity 6.7 pts (16%) Breadth 14.1 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akonia Holographics · near

42
Angus Chemical · this assignee

42
China Triumph… · near

42
Ultra Small Fibers · near

42
Yodlee · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Angus's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 Angus?

Each dot is one of Angus’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). Angus’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Angus's grants concentrate

Angus Chemical Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Angus sits between AGC Vidros DO Brasil Ltda and Assa Abloy Residential Group, Inc..

Angus's three-year grant acceleration

Angus Chemical Company shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

AGC Vidros DO Bra…

27
Akzo Nobel

27
Alfmeier PRÄZisio…

27
Anagog

27
Apollo Education…

27
Arcadia Bioscienc…

27
Asahi Group Holdi…

27
Assa Abloy Reside…

27
Angus Chemical ◀

27

What this shows Angus holds 27 patents at rank #11,153, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Angus

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,153 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Angus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds), Angus ranks #252 of 2,691 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Yodlee, Inc. 42 Akonia Holographics LLC 42 Ultra Small Fibers, LLC 42 China Triumph International Engineering Co., Ltd. 42

Angus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Angus Chemical Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	25.9%
2016	9	33.3%
2017	4	14.8%
2018	3	11.1%
2019	2	7.4%
2022	1	3.7%
2023	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Angus Chemical Company patent most?

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 18

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 9

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 6

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 6

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 3

B01D - Separation 2

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 1

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 1

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 1

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Angus Chemical Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Angus Chemical Company's lead technology class is C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07C
Ranked #11,162 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Angus Chemical Company against AGC Vidros DO Brasil Ltda, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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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