Where does Evonik Operations GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Evonik Operations GmbH ranks #796 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 Evonik Operations GmbH hold?

Evonik Operations GmbH holds 578 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 136 technology areas.

What is Evonik Operations GmbH's Innovation Score?

Evonik Operations GmbH has an Innovation Score of 65.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Evonik Operations GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Evonik Operations GmbH.

What does claim depth mean for Evonik Operations GmbH's patents?

Evonik Operations GmbH's patents average 16.0 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 Evonik Operations GmbH 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 Foreign Corporation

Evonik Operations GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Evonik Operations GmbH focus on?

Evonik Operations GmbH's top technology area is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds) with 142 patents. Grants appear in 136 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 578 granted patents across 136 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: 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, Evonik ranks #796 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 578 patents across 136 technology areas.

#796
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.7/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R796 · Foreign Corporation #796 · 578 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 578 grants
TOP-DECILE #796/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rohr
CPC-WIDE C08G · 136 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rohr, Inc. (±1 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
Evonik Operations · this assignee

66
Copeland · near

66
Ewha UNIVERSITY—INDU… · near

66
Ibiden · near

66
Boston Scientific… · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Evonik's Innovation Score is 65.7/100 (top 1% 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.

How Evonik's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2020–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 119 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 94. Lead class C08G accounts for 24.6% of the portfolio across 136 subclasses. Volume neighbours: University of Central Florida Research Foundation (#792) and Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. (#800).

Evonik's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Evonik Operations GmbH moved from 218 to 297 grants (1.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #561. See the growth leaderboard.

University of Cen…

581
Compal

580
Rohr

579
The Government of…

579
Evonik Operations ◀

578
Starkey Laborator…

577
King Abdulaziz Un…

576
Oshkosh

576
Stanley Electric

575

What this shows Evonik holds 578 patents at rank #796, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Evonik

By rank, the assignees closest to #796 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Evonik, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Ibiden Co., Ltd. 66 Ewha UNIVERSITY—INDUSTRY Collaboration Foundation 66 Copeland LP 66 Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Tektronix, Inc. 16.0 avg Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited 16.0 avg Children's Healthcare of Atlanta 16.0 avg Stratasys Ltd. 16.0 avg

Evonik's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Evonik Operations GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	119	20.6%
2021	99	17.1%
2022	95	16.4%
2023	94	16.3%
2024	108	18.7%
2025partial year	63	10.9%

Which technologies does Evonik Operations GmbH patent most?

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 142

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 131

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 96

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 90

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 68

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 66

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 62

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 60

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 59

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 49

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 44

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 38

B01D - Separation 36

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 36

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 33

Top 15 of 136 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#796

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

65.7 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

Evonik Operations GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Evonik Operations GmbH's lead technology class is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds), 24.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08G
Ranked #796 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Evonik Operations GmbH against University of Central Florida Research Foundation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.7/100 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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