Where does Lanxess Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lanxess Corporation ranks #10,085 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 Lanxess Corporation hold?

Lanxess Corporation holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Lanxess Corporation's Innovation Score?

Lanxess Corporation has an Innovation Score of 60.8 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lanxess Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lanxess Corporation's recent grant velocity is +111% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Lanxess Corporation's patents?

Lanxess Corporation's patents average 15.8 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 Lanxess Corporation 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

Lanxess Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Lanxess Corporation focus on?

Lanxess Corporation's top technology area is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition) with 10 patents, ranking #42 of 300 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 30 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: C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lanxess ranks #10,085 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 30 technology areas.

#10,085
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.8/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +111%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10085 · US Corporation #10,085 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,085/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH KÄRCHER North America
CPC-FOCUS C10M · 30 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +111% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: KÄRCHER North America, 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 Lanxess’s 60.8 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 12.0 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 19.4 pts (32%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beckhoff Automation · near

61
Iucf-hyu (INDUSTRY-U… · near

61
Lanxess · this assignee

61
Lineage Logistics · near

61
University OF… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lanxess's Innovation Score is 60.8/100 (top 3% 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 Lanxess?

Each dot is one of Lanxess’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). Lanxess’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lanxess's grants concentrate

Lanxess Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 32.3% of grants classified under C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Lanxess sits between Kerr Corporation and Legacy Ventures LLC.

Lanxess's three-year grant acceleration

Lanxess Corporation shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Kerr

31
Kindred Systems

31
Kuroda Precision…

31
KÄRcher North Ame…

31
Lasertec

31
Leatherman Tool G…

31
Larson Manufactur…

31
Legacy Ventures

31
Lanxess ◀

31

What this shows Lanxess holds 31 patents at rank #10,085, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lanxess

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,085 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10M (Lubricating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lanxess, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10M (Lubricating Compositions), Lanxess ranks #42 of 300 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Lineage Logistics, LLC 61 Beckhoff Automation GmbH 61 University OF Connecticut 61 Iucf-hyu (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY Cooperation Foundation Hanyang UNIVERSITY) 61

Lanxess's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Lanxess Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.2%
2017	6	19.4%
2018	2	6.5%
2021	1	3.2%
2022	6	19.4%
2023	6	19.4%
2024	6	19.4%
2025partial year	3	9.7%

Which technologies does Lanxess Corporation patent most?

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 10

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 10

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 8

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 7

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 5

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 5

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

C08C - Treatment OR Chemical Modification OF Rubbers 3

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 2

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 2

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

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

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

Lanxess Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lanxess Corporation's lead technology class is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition), 32.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10M
Ranked #10,085 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lanxess Corporation against Kerr Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.8/100 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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