Where does Cenovus Energy Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cenovus Energy Inc. ranks #6,225 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 Cenovus Energy Inc. hold?

Cenovus Energy Inc. holds 54 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Cenovus Energy Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cenovus Energy Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.8 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cenovus Energy Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cenovus Energy Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +67% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cenovus Energy Inc.'s patents?

Cenovus Energy Inc.'s patents average 18.2 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 Cenovus Energy Inc. 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

Cenovus Energy Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Cenovus Energy Inc. focus on?

Cenovus Energy Inc.'s top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 37 patents, ranking #90 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 54 granted patents across 25 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cenovus ranks #6,225 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 54 patents across 25 technology areas.

#6,225
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.8/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6225 · Foreign Corporation #6,225 · 54 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 54 grants
UPPER-Q #6,225/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Volcano…
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Volcano Engine Technology 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 Cenovus’s 54.8 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 13.8 pts (25%) Velocity 12.3 pts (22%) Breadth 17.7 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
HAI Robotics · near

55
Sartorius Stedim… · near

55
B G Negev AND… · near

55
Cenovus Energy · this assignee

55
Kraton Polymers · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cenovus's Innovation Score is 54.8/100 (top 7% 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 Cenovus?

Each dot is one of Cenovus’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). Cenovus’s own 18.2 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.

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

Where Cenovus's grants concentrate

Cenovus Energy Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 68.5% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Cenovus sits between Blanco GMBH + Co KG and Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc..

Cenovus's three-year grant acceleration

Cenovus Energy Inc. shows 24 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Blanco + KG

54
Beijing Volcano E…

54
Cmpd Licensing

54
Causam Enterprises

54
Clarkson Universi…

54
Classic Brands

54
Comau S p A

54
Constellation Pha…

54
Cenovus Energy ◀

54

What this shows Cenovus holds 54 patents at rank #6,226, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cenovus

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,226 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cenovus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Cenovus ranks #90 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Kraton Polymers LLC 55 B. G. Negev Technologies AND Applications Ltd., AT Ben-gurion University 55 Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. 55 HAI Robotics Co., Ltd. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

F5, Inc. 18.2 avg Jade Bird Display (Shanghai) Limited 18.2 avg International Rectifier Corporation 18.2 avg MobiTV, Inc. 18.2 avg

Cenovus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Cenovus Energy Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.6%
2016	2	3.7%
2017	5	9.3%
2018	1	1.9%
2019	7	13.0%
2020	2	3.7%
2021	4	7.4%
2022	1	1.9%
2023	12	22.2%
2024	11	20.4%
2025partial year	6	11.1%

Which technologies does Cenovus Energy Inc. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 37

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 15

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 7

C10C - Working-up Pitch, Asphalt, Bitumen, TAR; Pyroligneous Acid 6

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 3

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 2

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 2

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 2

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 2

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 2

Top 15 of 25 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

Cenovus Energy Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cenovus Energy Inc.'s lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 68.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #6,225 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cenovus Energy Inc. against Blanco GMBH + Co KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.8/100 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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