Where does Cabot Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cabot Corporation ranks #3,034 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 Cabot Corporation hold?

Cabot Corporation holds 125 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Cabot Corporation's Innovation Score?

Cabot Corporation has an Innovation Score of 57.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cabot Corporation focus on?

Cabot Corporation's top technology area is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients) with 55 patents, ranking #68 of 1,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cabot Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cabot Corporation's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Cabot Corporation's patents?

Cabot Corporation's patents average 20.3 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 Cabot 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

Cabot Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 125 granted patents across 63 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: C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cabot ranks #3,034 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 125 patents across 63 technology areas.

#3,034
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.1/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3034 · US Corporation #3,034 · 125 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 125 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,034/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bic-violex
CPC-WIDE C08K · 63 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bic-violex SA (±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 Cabot’s 57.1 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 16.7 pts (29%) Velocity 3.2 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cabot · this assignee

57
Mando Mobility… · near

57
Lely Patent · near

57
Ocient Holdings · near

57
Sanyo Chemical… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cabot's Innovation Score is 57.1/100 (top 5% 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 Cabot?

Each dot is one of Cabot’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). Cabot’s own 20.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Cabot's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cabot Corporation received 33 grants versus 88 in 2015–2019 (-62% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 2. Lead class C08K accounts for 44% of the portfolio across 63 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Zobele Holding SPA (#3,030) and Hgci, Inc. (#3,038).

Cabot's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cabot Corporation moved from 31 to 15 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 #2,733. See the growth leaderboard.

Zobele Holding SPA

126
Zuiko

126
dspace digital si…

126
Bic-violex

125
Fingerprint Cards…

125
Fontem Holdings 1…

125
Heraeus Quarzglas…

125
Hgci

125
Cabot ◀

125

What this shows Cabot holds 125 patents at rank #3,034, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cabot

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,034 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cabot, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances…), Cabot ranks #68 of 1,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Mando Mobility Solutions Corporation 57 Ocient Holdings LLC 57 Lely Patent N.V. 57 Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.3 here).

The Chamberlain Group LLC 20.3 avg Bentley Systems, Incorporated 20.3 avg Polaris Wireless, Inc. 20.3 avg Symbotic LLC 20.3 avg

Cabot's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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

Cabot Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	16.8%
2016	14	11.2%
2017	14	11.2%
2018	26	20.8%
2019	13	10.4%
2020	7	5.6%
2021	11	8.8%
2022	5	4.0%
2023	2	1.6%
2024	8	6.4%
2025partial year	4	3.2%

Which technologies does Cabot Corporation patent most?

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 55

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 48

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 47

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 34

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 25

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 24

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 24

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 21

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 17

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 13

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 13

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 13

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 12

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 11

Top 15 of 63 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

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

Cabot Corporation's lead technology class is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients), 44% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08K
Ranked #3,034 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cabot Corporation against Zobele Holding SPA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.1/100 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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