Where does Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd ranks #13,358 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 Plastics & Coatings Ltd hold?

Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2023, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd's Innovation Score?

Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd has an Innovation Score of 36.0 out of 100 (top 48% 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 Plastics & Coatings Ltd focus on?

Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd'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 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd's recent grant velocity is +533% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd's patents?

Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd's patents average 13.7 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 Plastics & Coatings Ltd 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 Plastics & Coatings Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2023. 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 #13,358 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 19 technology areas.

#13,358
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (36.0/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: +533%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13358 · Foreign Corporation #13,358 · 22 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,358/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carmel Pharma AB
CPC-FOCUS C08K · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +533% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carmel Pharma AB (±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 36.0 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 10.8 pts (30%) Velocity 1.5 pts (4%) Breadth 15.4 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Clariant Plastics &… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Clariant's Innovation Score is 36.0/100 (top 48% 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 13.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 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 Plastics & Coatings Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Clariant sits between Carmel Pharma AB and Communication Components Antenna Inc..

Clariant's three-year grant acceleration

Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Carmel Pharma AB

22
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Cerevasc

22
Chongqing Ruzer P…

22
Clarify Health So…

22
Cleveron AS

22
Coco Communicatio…

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Communication Com…

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Clariant Plastics… ◀

22

What this shows Clariant holds 22 patents at rank #13,366, 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 #13,366 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.

Clariant's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2023

Grants by year

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

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Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	13.6%
2020	8	36.4%
2021	7	31.8%
2022	3	13.6%
2023	1	4.5%

Which technologies does Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd patent most?

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

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 8

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 6

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 5

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 4

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

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 2

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; 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 2

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 1

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

Top 15 of 19 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 Plastics & Coatings Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd's lead technology class is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08K
Ranked #13,358 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Clariant Plastics & Coatings Ltd against Carmel Pharma AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.0/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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