Where does Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. ranks #26,011 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 Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. hold?

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K.'s Innovation Score?

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. focus on?

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K.'s top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 10 patents, ranking #452 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K.'s recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K.'s patents?

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K.'s patents average 14.1 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 Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. 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

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Clariant ranks #26,011 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 16 technology areas.

#26,011
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26011 · Foreign Corporation #26,011 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,011/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Circle Internet…
CPC-FOCUS B01J · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Circle Internet Financial, LLC (±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 Clariant’s 32.0 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 8.3 pts (26%) Velocity 1.1 pts (3%) Breadth 14.1 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Clariant Catalysts… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Clariant's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th percentile 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 Clariant?

Each dot is one of Clariant’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). Clariant’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Clariant's grants concentrate

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Clariant sits between Circle Internet Financial, LLC and CM Technologies, Inc..

Clariant's three-year grant acceleration

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Circle Internet F…

10
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Cirrus Data Solut…

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Clover Leaf Envir…

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CM

10
Clariant Catalyst… ◀

10

What this shows Clariant holds 10 patents at rank #25,976, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Clariant

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,976 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Clariant's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	10.0%
2018	1	10.0%
2019	5	50.0%
2021	1	10.0%
2024	1	10.0%
2025partial year	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 10

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

B01D - Separation 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

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 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 1

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 1

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K.'s lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #26,011 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Clariant Catalysts (JAPAN) K.K. against Circle Internet Financial, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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

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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

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