Where does Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG ranks #3,767 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 Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 69 technology areas.

What is Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 69.1 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG.

What does claim depth mean for Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 13.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds) with 52 patents, ranking #80 of 1,741 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 69 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG 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 PatentsView assignee record - 96 granted patents across 69 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Covestro ranks #3,767 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 69 technology areas.

#3,767
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.1/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3767 · Foreign Corporation #3,767 · 96 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,767/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bandai Namco…
CPC-WIDE C08G · 69 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bandai Namco Entertainment 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 Covestro’s 69.1 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 15.8 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (29%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Covestro Intellectua… · this assignee

69
Itron · near

69
Smith & Nephew… · near

69
Tongji University · near

69
Intrinsic Innovation · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Covestro's Innovation Score is 69.1/100 (top 1% 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 Covestro?

Each dot is one of Covestro’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). Covestro’s own 13.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Covestro's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2020–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 37 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 1. Lead class C08G accounts for 54.2% of the portfolio across 69 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. (#3,763) and Federal Express Corporation (#3,771).

Covestro's three-year grant acceleration

Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG shows 80 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Bandai Namco Ente…

96
Behr Process

96
Cognizant Technol…

96
Conversant Wirele…

96
Crosman

96
Dover Europe Sàrl

96
Erico Internation…

96
Federal Express

96
Covestro Intellec… ◀

96

What this shows Covestro holds 96 patents at rank #3,767, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Covestro

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,767 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Covestro, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…), Covestro ranks #80 of 1,741 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Itron, Inc. 69 Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG 69 Tongji University 69 Intrinsic Innovation LLC 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Victor Equipment Company 13.9 avg UNIVERSITÉ Paris DIDEROT—PARIS 7 13.9 avg M. Technique Co., Ltd. 13.8 avg KPR U.S., LLC 13.9 avg

Covestro's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	1.0%
2021	8	8.3%
2022	21	21.9%
2023	22	22.9%
2024	37	38.5%
2025partial year	7	7.3%

Which technologies does Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 52

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 24

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 21

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 19

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 18

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 16

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 16

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 13

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 11

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 9

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 5

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

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

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

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 4

Top 15 of 69 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

Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds), 54.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08G
Ranked #3,767 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG against Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.1/100 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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