Where does Elementis Specialties, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Elementis Specialties, Inc. ranks #11,634 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 Elementis Specialties, Inc. hold?

Elementis Specialties, Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Elementis Specialties, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Elementis Specialties, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.5 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Elementis Specialties, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Elementis Specialties, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +27% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Elementis Specialties, Inc.'s patents?

Elementis Specialties, Inc.'s patents average 14.7 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 Elementis Specialties, Inc. 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

Elementis Specialties, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Elementis Specialties, Inc. focus on?

Elementis Specialties, Inc.'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 18 patents, ranking #176 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 14 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Elementis ranks #11,634 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 14 technology areas.

#11,634
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.5/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11634 · US Corporation #11,634 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,634/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Echo Incorporated
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Echo Incorporated (±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 Elementis’s 38.5 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 11.4 pts (30%) Velocity 5.0 pts (13%) Breadth 13.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amer Sports Canada · near

38
Elementis Specialties · this assignee

38
FCI · near

38
RayVio · near

38
Thermo Electron LED · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Elementis's Innovation Score is 38.5/100 (top 41% 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 Elementis?

Each dot is one of Elementis’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). Elementis’s own 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Elementis's grants concentrate

Elementis Specialties, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 69.2% 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 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Elementis sits between Efficient Energy GMBH and Echo Incorporated.

Elementis's three-year grant acceleration

Elementis Specialties, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Efficient Energy

26
Eiken Kagaku

26
Ejot & KG

26
Elbex Video

26
Emed Labs

26
Empa Eidgenössisc…

26
Evolutive Labs

26
Echo Incorporated

26
Elementis Special… ◀

26

What this shows Elementis holds 26 patents at rank #11,633, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Elementis

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,633 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Elementis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Elementis ranks #176 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Thermo Electron LED GmbH 38 Amer Sports Canada Inc. 38 RayVio Corporation 38 FCI Co., Ltd. 38

Elementis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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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Elementis Specialties, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.8%
2016	2	7.7%
2017	4	15.4%
2018	4	15.4%
2020	5	19.2%
2021	3	11.5%
2022	1	3.8%
2023	4	15.4%
2024	1	3.8%
2025partial year	1	3.8%

Which technologies does Elementis Specialties, Inc. 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 18

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 14

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 8

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 7

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 7

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

B01D - Separation 3

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 2

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Elementis Specialties, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Elementis Specialties, Inc.'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), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #11,634 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Elementis Specialties, Inc. against Efficient Energy GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.5/100 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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