Where does IFP Energies Nouvelles rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), IFP Energies Nouvelles ranks #517 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 IFP Energies Nouvelles hold?

IFP Energies Nouvelles holds 870 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 164 technology areas.

What is IFP Energies Nouvelles's Innovation Score?

IFP Energies Nouvelles has an Innovation Score of 61.4 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does IFP Energies Nouvelles focus on?

IFP Energies Nouvelles's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 350 patents, ranking #8 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 164 CPC subclasses total.

Is IFP Energies Nouvelles's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

IFP Energies Nouvelles's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 IFP Energies Nouvelles's patents?

IFP Energies Nouvelles'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 IFP Energies Nouvelles 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

IFP Energies Nouvelles

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 870 granted patents across 164 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, IFP ranks #517 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 870 patents across 164 technology areas.

#517
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R517 · Foreign Corporation #517 · 870 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 870 grants
TOP-DECILE #517/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Georgia Tech Research
CPC-WIDE B01J · 164 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Georgia Tech Research 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 IFP’s 61.4 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 23.4 pts (38%) Velocity 3.4 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
IFP Energies Nouvelles · this assignee

61
Nchain Licensing · near

61
Sumitomo Chemical · near

61
Gulfstream Aerospace · near

61
The Penn State… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows IFP's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (top 3% 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 IFP?

Each dot is one of IFP’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). IFP’s own 16.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How IFP's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, IFP Energies Nouvelles received 385 grants versus 449 in 2015–2019 (-14% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 130 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 42. Lead class B01J accounts for 40.2% of the portfolio across 164 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Harry Winston SA (#513) and Zebra Technologies Corporation (#521).

IFP's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, IFP Energies Nouvelles moved from 330 to 170 grants (0.52x 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 #2,652. See the growth leaderboard.

Harry Winston

876
Imec VZW

876
Amgen

875
Georgia Tech Rese…

870
IFP Energies Nouv… ◀

870
Rolls-royce North…

868
Daimler

866
Avago Internation…

864
Zebra

863

What this shows IFP holds 870 patents at rank #517, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near IFP

By rank, the assignees closest to #517 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for IFP, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), IFP ranks #8 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited 61 Nchain Licensing AG 61 The Penn State Research Foundation 61 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation 61

Similar claim depth

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

BSH Hausgeräte GmbH 16.0 avg Oshkosh Corporation 16.0 avg Raytheon Technologies Corporation 16.0 avg Dassault Systemes 16.0 avg

IFP's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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IFP Energies Nouvelles patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	83	9.5%
2016	92	10.6%
2017	77	8.9%
2018	82	9.4%
2019	115	13.2%
2020	130	14.9%
2021	85	9.8%
2022	77	8.9%
2023	51	5.9%
2024	42	4.8%
2025partial year	36	4.1%

Which technologies does IFP Energies Nouvelles patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 350

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 282

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 215

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 146

B01D - Separation 137

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 131

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 72

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 67

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 54

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 44

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 43

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 41

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 38

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 37

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 31

Top 15 of 164 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

IFP Energies Nouvelles's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

IFP Energies Nouvelles's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 40.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #517 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare IFP Energies Nouvelles against Harry Winston SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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

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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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