Where does Cheil Industries Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cheil Industries Inc. ranks #1,354 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 Cheil Industries Inc. hold?

Cheil Industries Inc. holds 310 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Cheil Industries Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cheil Industries Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.4 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cheil Industries Inc. focus on?

Cheil Industries Inc.'s top technology area is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds) with 89 patents, ranking #55 of 2,352 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cheil Industries Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cheil Industries Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -98% 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 Cheil Industries Inc.'s patents?

Cheil Industries Inc.'s patents average 14.3 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 Cheil Industries 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

Cheil Industries Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 310 granted patents across 58 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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, Cheil ranks #1,354 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 310 patents across 58 technology areas.

#1,354
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.4/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -98%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1354 · Foreign Corporation #1,354 · 310 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 310 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,354/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CGG Services SAS
CPC-WIDE C08L · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -98% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CGG Services SAS (±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 Cheil’s 53.4 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 19.8 pts (37%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cheil Industries · this assignee

53
Envoy Medical · near

53
Idemia Identity &… · near

53
Korea Railroad… · near

53
Moldex-Metric · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cheil's Innovation Score is 53.4/100 (top 9% 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 Cheil?

Each dot is one of Cheil’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). Cheil’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Cheil's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cheil Industries Inc. received 5 grants versus 305 in 2015–2019 (-98% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 121 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class C08L accounts for 28.7% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Motional AD LLC (#1,350) and Glory Ltd. (#1,358).

Motional AD

312
Mitsubishi Heavy…

311
Marvell Israel (M…

311
CGG Services SAS

310
Otter Products

310
Cheil Industries ◀

310
Advanced Bionics

309
Daio Paper

309
Glory

309

What this shows Cheil holds 310 patents at rank #1,354, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cheil

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,354 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cheil, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), Cheil ranks #55 of 2,352 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Idemia Identity & Security France 53 Korea Railroad Research Institute 53 Moldex-Metric, Inc. 53 Envoy Medical Corporation 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Compagnie Plastic Omnium SE 14.3 avg National Health Research Institutes 14.3 avg Nuctech Company Limited 14.3 avg Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft 14.3 avg

Cheil's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cheil Industries Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	121	39.0%
2016	104	33.5%
2017	51	16.5%
2018	24	7.7%
2019	5	1.6%
2020	4	1.3%
2021	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Cheil Industries Inc. patent most?

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 89

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 69

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 67

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 59

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 57

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 54

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 49

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 46

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 45

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 41

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 37

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 37

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 31

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 30

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 26

Top 15 of 58 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

Cheil Industries Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cheil Industries Inc.'s lead technology class is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), 28.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08L
Ranked #1,354 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cheil Industries Inc. against Motional AD LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.4/100 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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