Where does Ineos Sales (UK) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ineos Sales (UK) Limited ranks #19,901 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 Ineos Sales (UK) Limited hold?

Ineos Sales (UK) Limited holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Ineos Sales (UK) Limited's Innovation Score?

Ineos Sales (UK) Limited has an Innovation Score of 30.6 out of 100 (35th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ineos Sales (UK) Limited focus on?

Ineos Sales (UK) Limited's top technology area is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds) with 13 patents, ranking #209 of 1,231 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ineos Sales (UK) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ineos Sales (UK) Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Ineos Sales (UK) Limited's patents?

Ineos Sales (UK) Limited's patents average 18.7 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 Ineos Sales (UK) 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

Ineos Sales (UK) Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ineos ranks #19,901 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 8 technology areas.

#19,901
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 35th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.6/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19901 · Foreign Corporation #19,901 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,901/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH IMI Hydronic…
CPC-NARROW C08F · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: IMI Hydronic Engineering International SA (±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 Ineos’s 30.6 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 9.4 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (37%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ineos Sales (UK) · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ineos's Innovation Score is 30.6/100 (35th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Ineos?

Each dot is one of Ineos’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). Ineos’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ineos's grants concentrate

Ineos Sales (UK) Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 92.9% of grants classified under C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Ineos sits between IMI Hydronic Engineering International SA and Institut D'investigacions BIOMÈDIQUES August PI I Sunyer (IDIBAPS).

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14
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14
Indooratlas OY

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Inmar RX Solutions

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14
Ineos Sales (UK) ◀

14

What this shows Ineos holds 14 patents at rank #19,893, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ineos

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,893 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…)

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

Ineos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 35th percentile higher than 35% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Ineos Sales (UK) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	28.6%
2016	7	50.0%
2017	1	7.1%
2019	2	14.3%

Which technologies does Ineos Sales (UK) Limited patent most?

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 13

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Ineos Sales (UK) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ineos Sales (UK) Limited's lead technology class is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds), 92.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08F
Ranked #19,901 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ineos Sales (UK) Limited against IMI Hydronic Engineering International SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.6/100 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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