Where does Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. ranks #22,542 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 Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. hold?

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 33.9 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +40% 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 Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.'s patents?

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.'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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. focus on?

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.'s top technology area is A24D (CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: A24D (CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Essentra ranks #22,542 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 10 technology areas.

#22,542
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.9/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22542 · Foreign Corporation #22,542 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,542/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Escient Pharmaceutic…
CPC-FOCUS A24D · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Escient Pharmaceuticals, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Essentra Filter… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Essentra's Innovation Score is 33.9/100 (46th percentile 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 Essentra's grants concentrate

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under A24D (CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Essentra sits between Escient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Everest Networks, Inc..

Essentra's three-year grant acceleration

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Escient Pharmaceu…

12
Esko Software BV

12
Esko Software Bvba

12
Esmeralda Breedin…

12
Essex Furukawa Ma…

12
Ethypharm

12
Eurokera

12
Everest Networks

12
Essentra Filter P… ◀

12

What this shows Essentra holds 12 patents at rank #22,546, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Essentra

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,546 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24D (Cigars)

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

Essentra's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	8.3%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	3	25.0%
2023	2	16.7%
2024	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. patent most?

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 10

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 3

A24B - Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff 3

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 2

A24C - Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,542

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

33.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.'s lead technology class is A24D (CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24D
Ranked #22,542 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. against Escient Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.9/100 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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