Where does Ergon, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ergon, Inc. ranks #26,244 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Ergon, Inc. hold?

Ergon, Inc. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Ergon, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ergon, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.8 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Ergon, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Ergon, Inc.'s patents average 18.7 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 Ergon, 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

Ergon, Inc.

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

Ergon, Inc.'s top technology area is C10G (CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION ; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: C10G (CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION ; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GAS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ergon ranks #26,244 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 8 technology areas.

#26,244
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.8/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26244 · US Corporation #26,244 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,244/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Enterprise
CPC-NARROW C10G · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Enterprise Electronics 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ergon · this assignee

43
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Ergon's Innovation Score is 42.8/100 (top 30% 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.

Where Ergon's grants concentrate

Ergon, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under C10G (CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION ; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GAS). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Ergon sits between Enterprise Electronics Llc and Essential Medical, Inc..

Ergon's three-year grant acceleration

Ergon, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Enterprise

10
Enverus

10
Environmental Man…

10
Epicentre

10
Ernst & Young U S…

10
Escape Therapeuti…

10
Essence Smartcare

10
Essential Medical

10
Ergon ◀

10

What this shows Ergon holds 10 patents at rank #26,262, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ergon

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,262 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Ergon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ergon, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2023	4	40.0%
2024	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Ergon, Inc. patent most?

C10G - CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION ; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES 9

C10M - LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS ; USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES EITHER ALONE OR AS LUBRICATING INGREDIENTS IN A LUBRICATING COMPOSITION 4

C10N - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS C10M RELATING TO LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS 4

C08L - COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS 4

E01C - CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR 3

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 2

C10B - DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION OF CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS FOR PRODUCTION OF GAS, COKE, TAR, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS 2

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 2

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#26,244

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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