Where does Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences ranks #5,084 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences's patents?

Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences's patents average 12.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences

Q: How is the Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 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 PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 57 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Institute ranks #5,084 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 57 technology areas.

#5,084
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.1/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5084 · Foreign Corporation #5,084 · 68 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,084/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Himax Imaging
CPC-WIDE B01J · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Himax Imaging Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alexion Pharmaceutic… · near

51
Element Six · near

51
Institute OF… · this assignee

51
Lepton Computing · near

51
Vulcan Industrial… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Institute's Innovation Score is 51.1/100 (top 12% 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 Institute's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences received 25 grants versus 35 in 2015–2019 (-29% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 14 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 2. Lead class B01J accounts for 35.3% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Himax Imaging Limited (#5,077) and Jade Bird Display (Shanghai) Limited (#5,085).

Institute's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences moved from 24 to 15 grants (0.63x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Himax Imaging

68
Idex Health & Sci…

68
Indian Institute…

68
Indian Motorcycle…

68
Ideal Power

68
Intellihot

68
Intellisist

68
Jade Bird Display…

68
Institute OF Proc… ◀

68

What this shows Institute holds 68 patents at rank #5,081, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Institute

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,081 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Institute, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), Institute ranks #194 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Element Six Technologies Limited 51 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 51 Lepton Computing LLC 51 Vulcan Industrial Holdings, LLC 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.2 here).

Hong Kong Baptist University 12.2 avg Fronius International GmbH 12.2 avg Agco International GmbH 12.2 avg Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. 12.2 avg

Institute's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.9%
2016	5	7.4%
2017	4	5.9%
2018	10	14.7%
2019	14	20.6%
2020	6	8.8%
2021	4	5.9%
2022	4	5.9%
2023	7	10.3%
2024	4	5.9%
2025partial year	8	11.8%

Which technologies does Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 24

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 18

B01D - Separation 18

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 14

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 13

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 11

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 10

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 8

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 5

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 5

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 5

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 5

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 5

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 5

C21B - Manufacture OF Iron OR Steel 4

Top 15 of 57 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,084

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.1 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

Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 35.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #5,084 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences against Himax Imaging Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.1/100 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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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

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