Where does Croda International PLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Croda International PLC ranks #5,271 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 Croda International PLC hold?

Croda International PLC holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Croda International PLC's Innovation Score?

Croda International PLC has an Innovation Score of 51.0 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Croda International PLC focus on?

Croda International PLC's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 23 patents, ranking #978 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

Is Croda International PLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Croda International PLC's recent grant velocity is -45% 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 Croda International PLC's patents?

Croda International PLC's patents average 16.4 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 Croda International PLC 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

Croda International PLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 49 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Croda ranks #5,271 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 49 technology areas.

#5,271
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.0/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5271 · Foreign Corporation #5,271 · 65 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,271/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Biomet Biologics
CPC-WIDE A61K · 49 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Biomet Biologics, 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 Croda’s 51.0 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 14.5 pts (28%) Velocity 1.9 pts (4%) Breadth 24.7 pts (48%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China University of… · near

51
Croda International · this assignee

51
Foret Plasma Labs · near

51
National Chung Shan… · near

51
Aerojet Rocketdyne · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Croda's Innovation Score is 51.0/100 (top 12% 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 Croda?

Each dot is one of Croda’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). Croda’s own 16.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Croda's grants concentrate

Croda International PLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 35.4% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Croda sits between Biomet Biologics, LLC and DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC.

Croda's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Croda International PLC moved from 24 to 7 grants (0.29x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Biomet Biologics

65
Blue Origin

65
Bridgestone Bandag

65
Consejo Nacional…

65
Cigna Intellectua…

65
Comfort Research

65
Cupp Computing AS

65
DRS Network & Ima…

65
Croda Internation… ◀

65

What this shows Croda holds 65 patents at rank #5,269, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Croda

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,269 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Croda, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Croda ranks #978 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC 51 National Chung Shan Institute OF Science AND Technology 51 China University of Petroleum 51 Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

Tesla Motors, Inc. 16.4 avg University College Dublin, National University OF Ireland, Dublin 16.4 avg Sage Therapeutics, Inc. 16.4 avg Bruker Biospin GmbH 16.4 avg

Croda's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Croda International PLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	7.7%
2016	5	7.7%
2017	16	24.6%
2018	5	7.7%
2019	9	13.8%
2020	9	13.8%
2021	6	9.2%
2022	2	3.1%
2023	5	7.7%
2025partial year	3	4.6%

Which technologies does Croda International PLC patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 23

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 20

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 15

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 10

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 10

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 9

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 9

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 6

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 5

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 5

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 5

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

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 5

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 4

Top 15 of 49 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

Croda International PLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Croda International PLC's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 35.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #5,271 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Croda International PLC against Biomet Biologics, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.0/100 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.

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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

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

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