Where does Imerys Minerals Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Imerys Minerals Limited ranks #24,529 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 Imerys Minerals Limited hold?

Imerys Minerals Limited holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Imerys Minerals Limited's Innovation Score?

Imerys Minerals Limited has an Innovation Score of 45.7 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Imerys Minerals Limited focus on?

Imerys Minerals Limited's top technology area is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients) with 4 patents, ranking #641 of 1,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Imerys Minerals Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Imerys Minerals Limited's recent grant velocity is -90% 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 Imerys Minerals Limited's patents?

Imerys Minerals Limited's patents average 20.1 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 Imerys Minerals Limited 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

Imerys Minerals Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Imerys ranks #24,529 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 27 technology areas.

#24,529
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.7/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24529 · Foreign Corporation #24,529 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,529/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ICE Data
CPC-FOCUS C08K · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ICE Data, LP (±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 Imerys’s 45.7 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 8.6 pts (19%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 18.4 pts (40%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (26%)

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What this shows Imerys's Innovation Score is 45.7/100 (top 23% 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 Imerys?

Each dot is one of Imerys’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). Imerys’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Imerys's grants concentrate

Imerys Minerals Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 36.4% of grants classified under C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Imerys sits between ICE Data, LP and Indi Molecular, Inc..

Imerys's three-year grant acceleration

Imerys Minerals Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

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What this shows Imerys holds 11 patents at rank #24,507, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Imerys

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,507 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances…)

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

Imerys's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Imerys Minerals Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2016	2	18.2%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	5	45.5%
2022	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Imerys Minerals Limited patent most?

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 3

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 3

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 3

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 3

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 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 1

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

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

Imerys Minerals Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Imerys Minerals Limited's lead technology class is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients), 36.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08K
Ranked #24,529 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Imerys Minerals Limited against ICE Data, LP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.7/100 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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