Where does Dow Corning Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dow Corning Corporation ranks #1,910 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 Dow Corning Corporation hold?

Dow Corning Corporation holds 210 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 89 technology areas.

What is Dow Corning Corporation's Innovation Score?

Dow Corning Corporation has an Innovation Score of 53.0 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dow Corning Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dow Corning Corporation's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Dow Corning Corporation's patents?

Dow Corning Corporation's patents average 15.8 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 Dow Corning Corporation 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 US Corporation

Dow Corning Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Dow Corning Corporation focus on?

Dow Corning Corporation's top technology area is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds) with 123 patents, ranking #33 of 1,741 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 89 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 210 granted patents across 89 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Dow ranks #1,910 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 210 patents across 89 technology areas.

#1,910
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.0/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1910 · US Corporation #1,910 · 210 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 210 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,910/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Atlassian US
CPC-WIDE C08G · 89 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Atlassian US, 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 Dow’s 53.0 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 18.5 pts (35%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
EGALAX_EMPIA… · near

53
Sintai Optical… · near

53
Dow Corning · this assignee

53
Plastic Omnium… · near

53
SportsMEDIA Technology · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dow's Innovation Score is 53.0/100 (top 9% 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 Dow?

Each dot is one of Dow’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). Dow’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Dow's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Dow Corning Corporation received 1 grants versus 209 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 78 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 1. Lead class C08G accounts for 58.6% of the portfolio across 89 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Atlassian US, Inc. (#1,906) and Okamura Corporation (#1,914).

Atlassian US

210
Benteler Automobi…

210
Baylor College of…

210
CPS Technology Ho…

210
Hitachi High-tech…

210
Hitachi Energy

210
National Universi…

210
Okamura

210
Dow Corning ◀

210

What this shows Dow holds 210 patents at rank #1,910, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dow

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,910 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dow, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…), Dow ranks #33 of 1,741 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation 53 Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and Research 53 Sintai Optical (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 53 EGALAX_EMPIA Technology Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Sunpower Corporation 15.8 avg Essilor International 15.8 avg Bestway Inflatables & Material Corp. 15.8 avg BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. 15.8 avg

Dow's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Dow Corning Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	78	37.1%
2016	44	21.0%
2017	50	23.8%
2018	26	12.4%
2019	11	5.2%
2020	1	0.5%

Which technologies does Dow Corning Corporation patent most?

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 123

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 97

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 66

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 59

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 33

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 31

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 29

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 27

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 27

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 20

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 20

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 19

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 18

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 12

Top 15 of 89 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

Dow Corning Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dow Corning Corporation's lead technology class is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds), 58.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08G
Ranked #1,910 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dow Corning Corporation against Atlassian US, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.0/100 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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