Where does Celanese Sales Germany GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Celanese Sales Germany GMBH ranks #10,890 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 Celanese Sales Germany GMBH hold?

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Celanese Sales Germany GMBH's Innovation Score?

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH has an Innovation Score of 51.0 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Celanese Sales Germany GMBH focus on?

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH's top technology area is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds) with 20 patents, ranking #227 of 2,352 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Celanese Sales Germany GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH's recent grant velocity is +15% 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 Celanese Sales Germany GMBH's patents?

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH's patents average 23.5 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 Celanese Sales Germany 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

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 30 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Celanese ranks #10,890 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 30 technology areas.

#10,890
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.0/100): 23.5
avg claims per patent: +15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10890 · Foreign Corporation #10,890 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,890/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canon Electron…
CPC-FOCUS C08L · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canon Electron Tubes & Devices Co., 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 Celanese’s 51.0 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 11.6 pts (23%) Velocity 5.9 pts (12%) Breadth 19.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 14.1 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nile Global · near

51
Celanese Sales Germany · this assignee

51
Parade · near

51
THE Board OF… · near

51
Robertshaw Controls · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Celanese's Innovation Score is 51.0/100 (top 12% 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 Celanese?

Each dot is one of Celanese’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). Celanese’s own 23.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Celanese's grants concentrate

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Celanese sits between Canon Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd. and Crocus Technology Inc..

Celanese's three-year grant acceleration

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Canon Electron Tu…

28
Canon Nanotechnol…

28
Carbios

28
Cedes

28
Clph

28
Comet

28
Contech Engineere…

28
Crocus Technology

28
Celanese Sales Ge… ◀

28

What this shows Celanese holds 28 patents at rank #10,887, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Celanese

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,887 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Celanese, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), Celanese ranks #227 of 2,352 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

THE Board OF Regents OF THE Nevada System OF Higher Education ON Behalf OF THE University OF Nevada, LAS Vegas 51 Parade Technologies, Ltd. 51 Nile Global, Inc. 51 Robertshaw Controls Company 51

Celanese's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Celanese Sales Germany GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.6%
2017	6	21.4%
2018	4	14.3%
2019	2	7.1%
2020	4	14.3%
2021	3	10.7%
2022	4	14.3%
2023	2	7.1%
2024	2	7.1%

Which technologies does Celanese Sales Germany GMBH patent most?

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 20

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 10

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 10

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 5

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 5

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 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 3

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

B01D - Separation 3

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 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 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

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Celanese Sales Germany GMBH's lead technology class is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08L
Ranked #10,890 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Celanese Sales Germany GMBH against Canon Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.0/100 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

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