Where does Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited ranks #8,556 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 Finance (BVI) Limited hold?

Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited's Innovation Score?

Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited has an Innovation Score of 42.2 out of 100 (top 31% 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 Finance (BVI) Limited focus on?

Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited's top technology area is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients) with 14 patents, ranking #226 of 1,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Finance (BVI) Limited's patents?

Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited'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 Finance (BVI) Limited 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 Finance (BVI) Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 36 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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, Clariant ranks #8,556 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 36 technology areas.

#8,556
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.2/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8556 · Foreign Corporation #8,556 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,556/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cannuflow
CPC-FOCUS C08K · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cannuflow, Inc. (±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 42.2 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 12.6 pts (30%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 21.2 pts (50%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Clariant Finance (BVI) · this assignee

42
Trumpf Huettinger + KG · near

42
Alcoa USA · near

42
ConnectWise · near

42
NEC Communication… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Clariant's Innovation Score is 42.2/100 (top 31% 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 at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Clariant's grants concentrate

Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 37.8% of grants classified under C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (36 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Clariant sits between Cannuflow, Inc. and CornellCookson, LLC.

Cannuflow

37
Ceramatec

37
Changchun Institu…

37
Charcoal Companion

37
Consumer Safety T…

37
Contitech Antrieb…

37
Core Scientific

37
Cornellcookson

37
Clariant Finance… ◀

37

What this shows Clariant holds 37 patents at rank #8,560, 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 #8,560 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Clariant, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances…), Clariant ranks #226 of 1,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Trumpf Huettinger GMBH + Co. KG 42 Alcoa USA Corp. 42 ConnectWise, LLC 42 NEC Communication Systems, Ltd. 42

Clariant's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

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

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Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	36	97.3%
2016	1	2.7%

Which technologies does Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited patent most?

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 14

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

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 10

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 5

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 5

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 4

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 2

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

Top 15 of 36 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 Finance (BVI) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited's lead technology class is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients), 37.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08K
Ranked #8,556 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited against Cannuflow, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.2/100 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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