Where does Kraton Polymers LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kraton Polymers LLC ranks #3,925 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 Kraton Polymers LLC hold?

Kraton Polymers LLC holds 92 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 60 technology areas.

What is Kraton Polymers LLC's Innovation Score?

Kraton Polymers LLC has an Innovation Score of 54.8 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kraton Polymers LLC focus on?

Kraton Polymers LLC's top technology area is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds) with 55 patents, ranking #91 of 2,352 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 60 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kraton Polymers LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kraton Polymers LLC's recent grant velocity is -26% 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 Kraton Polymers LLC's patents?

Kraton Polymers LLC's patents average 17.0 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 Kraton Polymers 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

Kraton Polymers LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 92 granted patents across 60 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kraton ranks #3,925 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 92 patents across 60 technology areas.

#3,925
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.8/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3925 · US Corporation #3,925 · 92 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 92 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,925/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hyster-Yale Group
CPC-WIDE C08L · 60 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hyster-Yale Group, 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 Kraton’s 54.8 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 15.7 pts (29%) Velocity 3.9 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
HAI Robotics · near

55
Sartorius Stedim… · near

55
B G Negev AND… · near

55
Cenovus Energy · near

55
Kraton Polymers · this assignee

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kraton's Innovation Score is 54.8/100 (top 7% 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 Kraton?

Each dot is one of Kraton’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). Kraton’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Kraton's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Kraton Polymers LLC received 39 grants versus 53 in 2015–2019 (-26% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 17 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 2. Lead class C08L accounts for 59.8% of the portfolio across 60 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hyster-Yale Group, Inc. (#3,921) and Liqid Inc. (#3,929).

Kraton's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kraton Polymers LLC moved from 29 to 17 grants (0.59x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Hyster-yale Group

92
Institut National…

92
Innovelis

92
Iovance Biotherap…

92
LAT Enterprises

92
Lippert Components

92
Lindsay

92
Liqid

92
Kraton Polymers ◀

92

What this shows Kraton holds 92 patents at rank #3,925, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kraton

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,925 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kraton, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), Kraton ranks #91 of 2,352 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

B. G. Negev Technologies AND Applications Ltd., AT Ben-gurion University 55 Cenovus Energy Inc. 55 HAI Robotics Co., Ltd. 55 Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico LLC 17.0 avg Valeo North America, Inc. 17.0 avg Formosa Plastics Corporation 17.0 avg Zebra Technologies Corporation 17.0 avg

Kraton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Kraton Polymers LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	5.4%
2016	13	14.1%
2017	11	12.0%
2018	17	18.5%
2019	7	7.6%
2020	10	10.9%
2021	12	13.0%
2022	15	16.3%
2023	2	2.2%

Which technologies does Kraton Polymers LLC patent most?

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 55

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 41

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 26

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 25

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 19

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 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 10

B01D - Separation 9

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 8

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 8

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 8

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 6

C09F - Natural RESINS; French POLISH; DRYING-OILS; OIL Drying Agents, i.e. SICCATIVES; Turpentine 6

Top 15 of 60 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Kraton Polymers LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kraton Polymers LLC's lead technology class is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), 59.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08L
Ranked #3,925 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kraton Polymers LLC against Hyster-Yale Group, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.8/100 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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