Where does Ansell Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ansell Limited ranks #5,424 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 Ansell Limited hold?

Ansell Limited holds 63 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Ansell Limited's Innovation Score?

Ansell Limited has an Innovation Score of 47.4 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ansell Limited focus on?

Ansell Limited's top technology area is A41D (OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories) with 40 patents, ranking #5 of 582 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ansell Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ansell Limited's recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Ansell Limited's patents?

Ansell Limited's patents average 13.2 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 Ansell Limited 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

Ansell Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 63 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: A41D (OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ansell ranks #5,424 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 63 patents across 35 technology areas.

#5,424
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5424 · Foreign Corporation #5,424 · 63 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 63 grants
UPPER-Q #5,424/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AbbVie Biotechnology
CPC-FOCUS A41D · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AbbVie Biotechnology 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.

How Ansell’s 47.4 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 14.4 pts (30%) Velocity 4.2 pts (9%) Breadth 20.9 pts (44%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ansell · this assignee

47
Distran · near

47
Gemological… · near

47
Raynergy Tek… · near

47
Renaissance Learning · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ansell's Innovation Score is 47.4/100 (top 19% 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 Ansell?

Each dot is one of Ansell’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). Ansell’s own 13.2 claims/patent is at or below the 19.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ansell's grants concentrate

Ansell Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 63.5% of grants classified under A41D (OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Ansell sits between AbbVie Biotechnology Ltd. and Clearpath Robotics Inc..

Ansell's three-year grant acceleration

Ansell Limited shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Abbvie Biotechnol…

63
Advanced Drainage…

63
Affectiva

63
Agfa-gevaert

63
BGI Shenzhen

63
Baldwin Filters

63
Brewer Science

63
Clearpath Robotics

63
Ansell ◀

63

What this shows Ansell holds 63 patents at rank #5,427, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ansell

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,427 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A41D (Outerwear)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ansell, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A41D (Outerwear), Ansell ranks #5 of 582 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) 47 Raynergy Tek Incorporation 47 Distran AG 47 Renaissance Learning, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.2 here).

Connaught Electronics Ltd. 13.2 avg International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. 13.2 avg Velos Media, LLC 13.2 avg Medizinische Hochschule Hannover 13.2 avg

Ansell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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.

View data table

Ansell Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	11.1%
2016	5	7.9%
2017	9	14.3%
2018	9	14.3%
2019	9	14.3%
2020	5	7.9%
2021	5	7.9%
2022	3	4.8%
2023	4	6.3%
2024	5	7.9%
2025partial year	2	3.2%

Which technologies does Ansell Limited patent most?

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 40

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 10

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 10

D04B - Knitting 9

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 8

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 7

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 7

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 7

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 6

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 6

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 5

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 3

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

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Ansell Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ansell Limited's lead technology class is A41D (OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories), 63.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A41D
Ranked #5,424 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ansell Limited against AbbVie Biotechnology Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.4/100 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.