Where does Basell Polyolefine GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Basell Polyolefine GmbH ranks #2,985 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 Basell Polyolefine GmbH hold?

Basell Polyolefine GmbH holds 127 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Basell Polyolefine GmbH's Innovation Score?

Basell Polyolefine GmbH has an Innovation Score of 51.7 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Basell Polyolefine GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Basell Polyolefine GmbH's recent grant velocity is -59% 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 Basell Polyolefine GmbH's patents?

Basell Polyolefine GmbH's patents average 14.2 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 Basell Polyolefine GmbH 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

Basell Polyolefine GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Basell Polyolefine GmbH focus on?

Basell Polyolefine GmbH's top technology area is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds) with 108 patents. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 127 granted patents across 43 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: C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Basell ranks #2,985 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 127 patents across 43 technology areas.

#2,985
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.7/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2985 · Foreign Corporation #2,985 · 127 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 127 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,985/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Power Grids…
CPC-WIDE C08F · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AG (±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
Basell Polyolefine · this assignee

52
Feitian · near

52
Kymera Therapeutics · near

52
MLOptic · near

52
Teleflex Life Sciences · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Basell's Innovation Score is 51.7/100 (top 11% 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 Basell's grants concentrate

Basell Polyolefine GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 85% of grants classified under C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (20 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, Basell sits between simplehuman, LLC and Ecolink Intelligent Technology, Inc..

Basell's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Basell Polyolefine GmbH moved from 33 to 16 grants (0.48x 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 #2,729. See the growth leaderboard.

simplehuman

128
ABB Power Grids S…

127
Albea Services

127
Axsome Therapeuti…

127
Centre National d…

127
Corning Cable Sys…

127
Dana Canada

127
Ecolink Intellige…

127
Basell Polyolefine ◀

127

What this shows Basell holds 127 patents at rank #2,985, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Basell

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,985 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Teleflex Life Sciences LLC 52 Feitian Technologies Co., Ltd. 52 MLOptic Corp. 52 Kymera Therapeutics, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. 14.2 avg Airbus Defence AND Space SAS 14.2 avg Exact Sciences Corporation 14.2 avg Oculus VR, LLC 14.2 avg

Basell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Basell Polyolefine GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	11.8%
2016	17	13.4%
2017	20	15.7%
2018	16	12.6%
2019	15	11.8%
2020	10	7.9%
2021	8	6.3%
2022	8	6.3%
2023	3	2.4%
2024	5	3.9%
2025partial year	10	7.9%

Which technologies does Basell Polyolefine GmbH patent most?

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 108

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 52

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 36

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 20

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 18

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 17

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 13

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 12

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

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 3

Top 15 of 43 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,985

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.7 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

Basell Polyolefine GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Basell Polyolefine GmbH's lead technology class is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds), 85% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08F
Ranked #2,985 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Basell Polyolefine GmbH against simplehuman, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.7/100 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.

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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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