Where does AXENS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AXENS ranks #5,197 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 AXENS hold?

AXENS holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is AXENS's Innovation Score?

AXENS has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is AXENS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AXENS's recent grant velocity is +17% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for AXENS's patents?

AXENS's patents average 14.4 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 AXENS 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

AXENS

Q: What technology areas does AXENS focus on?

AXENS's top technology area is C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes) with 42 patents, ranking #29 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 30 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: C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GAS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Axens ranks #5,197 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 30 technology areas.

#5,197
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5197 · Foreign Corporation #5,197 · 66 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,197/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acme United
CPC-FOCUS C10G · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acme United Corporation (±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 Axens’s 44.9 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 14.5 pts (32%) Velocity 2.4 pts (5%) Breadth 19.4 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Causam Energy · near

45
AXENS · this assignee

45
Certicom · near

45
Formalloy · near

45
Nanthealth · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Axens's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 25% 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 Axens?

Each dot is one of Axens’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). Axens’s own 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Axens's grants concentrate

AXENS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GAS). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Axens sits between Webroot Inc. and Babyliss Faco SRL.

Axens's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, AXENS moved from 34 to 12 grants (0.35x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Webroot

67
Warrior Sports

67
Zhejiang Cfmoto P…

67
Aixtron SE

66
Acme United

66
Advanced Liquid L…

66
Aerojet Rocketdyne

66
Babyliss Faco SRL

66
Axens ◀

66

What this shows AXENS holds 66 patents at rank #5,194, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AXENS

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,194 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for AXENS, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), AXENS ranks #29 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Certicom Corp. 45 Nanthealth, Inc. 45 Formalloy Technologies, Inc. 45 Causam Energy, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.4 here).

Qingdao Pico Technology Co., Ltd. 14.4 avg Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc. 14.4 avg Respivert Ltd. 14.4 avg University of Limerick 14.4 avg

Axens's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% 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.

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AXENS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.5%
2016	5	7.6%
2017	6	9.1%
2018	7	10.6%
2019	11	16.7%
2020	15	22.7%
2021	8	12.1%
2022	6	9.1%
2023	4	6.1%
2024	2	3.0%
2025partial year	1	1.5%

Which technologies does AXENS patent most?

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 42

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 25

B01D - Separation 22

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 15

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 14

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

C10J - Production OF Producer GAS, Water-gas, Synthesis GAS From Solid Carbonaceous Material, OR Mixtures Containing These Gases ; Carburetting AIR OR Other Gases 2

C10K - Purifying OR Modifying THE Chemical Composition OF Combustible Gases Containing Carbon Monoxide 2

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 2

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 2

Top 15 of 30 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

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

AXENS's lead technology class is C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GAS), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #5,197 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AXENS against Webroot Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.9/100 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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