Where does Ethox Chemicals, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ethox Chemicals, LLC ranks #9,498 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 Ethox Chemicals, LLC hold?

Ethox Chemicals, LLC holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Ethox Chemicals, LLC's Innovation Score?

Ethox Chemicals, LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ethox Chemicals, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ethox Chemicals, LLC's recent grant velocity is -28% 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 Ethox Chemicals, LLC's patents?

Ethox Chemicals, LLC's patents average 21.7 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 Ethox Chemicals, LLC 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

Ethox Chemicals, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Ethox Chemicals, LLC focus on?

Ethox Chemicals, LLC'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 15 patents, ranking #217 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 27 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, Ethox ranks #9,498 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 27 technology areas.

#9,498
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 21.7
avg claims per patent: -28%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9498 · US Corporation #9,498 · 33 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,498/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Edico Genome
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -28% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Edico Genome Corporation (±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 Ethox’s 48.0 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 12.2 pts (25%) Velocity 4.4 pts (9%) Breadth 18.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 13.0 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
B Braun Medical · near

48
East Carolina… · near

48
As0001 · near

48
Ethox Chemicals · this assignee

48
SureFire · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ethox's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 Ethox?

Each dot is one of Ethox’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). Ethox’s own 21.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ethox's grants concentrate

Ethox Chemicals, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 45.5% 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 2016 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Ethox sits between Eppendorf SE and Gulfstream Services, Inc..

Ethox's three-year grant acceleration

Ethox Chemicals, LLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Eppendorf SE

33
Esteve Pharmaceut…

33
Edico Genome

33
Eidgenössische Te…

33
FEV Group

33
Financialforce com

33
Generalplus Techn…

33
Gulfstream Servic…

33
Ethox Chemicals ◀

33

What this shows Ethox holds 33 patents at rank #9,498, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ethox

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,498 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ethox, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Ethox ranks #217 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

SureFire, LLC 48 As0001, Inc. 48 B.Braun Medical Inc. 48 East Carolina University 48

Ethox's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Ethox Chemicals, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	6.1%
2016	8	24.2%
2017	1	3.0%
2018	5	15.2%
2019	2	6.1%
2020	4	12.1%
2021	3	9.1%
2022	2	6.1%
2023	2	6.1%
2024	2	6.1%
2025partial year	2	6.1%

Which technologies does Ethox Chemicals, LLC 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 15

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 12

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 11

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 8

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 6

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

C11C - Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils OR WAXES; CANDLES; Fats, Oils OR Fatty Acids BY Chemical Modification OF Fats, Oils, OR Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom 4

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 3

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 3

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 3

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 2

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 2

Top 15 of 27 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

Ethox Chemicals, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ethox Chemicals, LLC'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), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #9,498 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ethox Chemicals, LLC against Eppendorf SE, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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.

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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