Where does Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. ranks #6,129 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 (Netherlands) B.V. hold?

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Covestro (Netherlands) B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. has an Innovation Score of 69.7 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 (Netherlands) B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Covestro (Netherlands) B.V..

What does claim depth mean for Covestro (Netherlands) B.V.'s patents?

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V.'s patents average 24.8 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 Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. 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

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V.

Q: What technology areas does Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. focus on?

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V.'s top technology area is 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) with 45 patents, ranking #73 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: 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 Materi).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Covestro ranks #6,129 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 35 technology areas.

#6,129
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.7/100): 24.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6129 · Foreign Corporation #6,129 · 55 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,129/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Caterpillar Trimble…
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 35 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies 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 Covestro’s 69.7 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 13.9 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (29%) Breadth 20.9 pts (30%) Claim depth 14.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Joby Aero · near

70
PlusAI · near

70
Raytheon · near

70
Covestro (Netherland… · this assignee

70
Outdoor Wireless… · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Covestro's Innovation Score is 69.7/100 (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 24.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Covestro's grants concentrate

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under 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 Materi). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (22 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2021. By volume, Covestro sits between Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC and DT Swiss Inc..

Covestro's three-year grant acceleration

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. shows 39 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.

Caterpillar Trimb…

55
China Agricultura…

55
Clevx

55
Cold Spring Harbo…

55
Curevac SE

55
Custom Molded Pro…

55
Dental Imaging

55
DT Swiss

55
Covestro (Netherl… ◀

55

What this shows Covestro holds 55 patents at rank #6,130, 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 #6,130 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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 C09D (Coating Compositions), Covestro ranks #73 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Raytheon Company 70 PlusAI, Inc. 70 Joby Aero, Inc. 70 Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.8 here).

Medivation Technologies LLC 24.8 avg Greatbatch Ltd. 24.8 avg Cavium, LLC. 24.8 avg Synchrony Bank 24.7 avg

Covestro's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

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

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	6	10.9%
2022	22	40.0%
2023	8	14.5%
2024	9	16.4%
2025partial year	10	18.2%

Which technologies does Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. patent most?

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 45

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 31

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 29

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 27

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 23

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 12

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 12

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 12

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 10

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 9

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 6

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

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; 4

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 4

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 3

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V.'s lead technology class is 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 Materi), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #6,129 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. against Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.