Where does Ingevity South Carolina, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ingevity South Carolina, LLC ranks #6,343 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 Ingevity South Carolina, LLC hold?

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Ingevity South Carolina, LLC's Innovation Score?

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ingevity South Carolina, LLC focus on?

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 22 patents, ranking #204 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ingevity South Carolina, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC's recent grant velocity is +171% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ingevity South Carolina, LLC's patents?

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC's patents average 23.1 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 Ingevity South Carolina, 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

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 30 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Ingevity ranks #6,343 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 30 technology areas.

#6,343
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 23.1
avg claims per patent: +171%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6343 · US Corporation #6,343 · 53 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,343/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hello
CPC-FOCUS B01J · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +171% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hello Inc. (±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 Ingevity’s 52.9 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 13.8 pts (26%) Velocity 5.8 pts (11%) Breadth 19.4 pts (37%) Claim depth 13.9 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Fujitsu Component · near

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Ingevity South… · this assignee

53
Inguran · near

53
University of… · near

53
Waldemar Link & KG · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ingevity's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 10% 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 Ingevity?

Each dot is one of Ingevity’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). Ingevity’s own 23.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ingevity's grants concentrate

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 41.5% of grants classified under B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Ingevity sits between Hello Inc. and Instart Logic, Inc..

Ingevity's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ingevity South Carolina, LLC moved from 24 to 21 grants (0.88x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Hello

53
Henry Ford Health…

53
Hyliion

53
Ikea Supply

53
Insightec

53
Institut National…

53
Indigo

53
Instart Logic

53
Ingevity South Ca… ◀

53

What this shows Ingevity holds 53 patents at rank #6,341, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ingevity

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,341 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ingevity, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), Ingevity ranks #204 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG 53 University of Puerto Rico 53 Inguran, LLC 53 Fujitsu Component Limited 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.1 here).

Beta Bionics, Inc. 23.1 avg Pregis Innovative Packaging LLC 23.1 avg 24M Technologies, Inc. 23.1 avg Golba LLC 23.1 avg

Ingevity's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ingevity South Carolina, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	3.8%
2017	2	3.8%
2018	3	5.7%
2019	7	13.2%
2020	11	20.8%
2021	6	11.3%
2022	6	11.3%
2023	10	18.9%
2024	5	9.4%
2025partial year	1	1.9%

Which technologies does Ingevity South Carolina, LLC patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 22

B01D - Separation 21

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 20

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 13

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 12

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 11

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 9

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 7

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 6

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 3

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 3

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 3

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

Top 15 of 30 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

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ingevity South Carolina, LLC's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 41.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #6,343 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ingevity South Carolina, LLC against Hello Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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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