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De Beers UK Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 8 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, De ranks #11,985 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 8 technology areas.

#11,985
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100)
17.8
avg claims per patent
+9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11985 · Foreign Corporation #11,985 · 25 grants

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

  • GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
  • UPPER-Q #11,985/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH DataRobot
  • CPC-NARROW G01N · 8 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-FLAT +9% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DataRobot, 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 De’s 50.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around De

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows De's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for De?

Each dot is one of De’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). De’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

De vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 24.924.92525.1 010203040 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Dong-a University Research Foundation FOR Industry-academy Cooperation - 25, 11.08Dong-a University…DY Auto Corporation - 25, 6.52DY AutoDystar Colours Distribution GMBH - 25, 15.32Dystar Colours Di…DataRobot, Inc. - 25, 35.04DatarobotDeep Isolation, Inc. - 25, 27Deep IsolationDejana Truck and Utility Equipment Co., Inc. - 25, 19.16Dejana Truck and…Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc. - 25, 19.36Delphinus MedicalDiehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG - 25, 15Diehl Defence & KGDe Beers UK Ltd - 25, 17.84De Beers UK
De vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where De's grants concentrate

De Beers UK Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 64% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, De sits between Dong-a University Research Foundation FOR Industry-academy Cooperation and Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG.

De's three-year grant acceleration

De Beers UK Ltd shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Who files at De's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows De holds 25 patents at rank #11,990, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near De

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,990 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for De, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), De ranks #956 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

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De's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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De Beers UK Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 1 4.0%
2016 2 8.0%
2017 3 12.0%
2018 2 8.0%
2019 3 12.0%
2021 1 4.0%
2023 7 28.0%
2024 4 16.0%
2025partial year 2 8.0%

Which technologies does De Beers UK Ltd patent most?

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

De Beers UK Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • De Beers UK Ltd's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 64% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
  • Ranked #11,985 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare De Beers UK Ltd against Dong-a University Research Foundation FOR Industry-academy Cooperation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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

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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

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.