Where does Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. ranks #5,957 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 Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. hold?

Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. holds 57 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.'s Innovation Score?

Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. has an Innovation Score of 40.2 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. focus on?

Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.'s top technology area is C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds) with 39 patents, ranking #109 of 2,691 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.'s recent grant velocity is -16% 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 Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.'s patents?

Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.'s patents average 16.0 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 Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. 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

Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 57 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lyondell ranks #5,957 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 57 patents across 13 technology areas.

#5,957
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.2/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5957 · US Corporation #5,957 · 57 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 57 grants
UPPER-Q #5,957/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Koganei
CPC-FOCUS C07C · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Koganei Corporation (±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 Lyondell’s 40.2 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 14.0 pts (35%) Velocity 3.8 pts (9%) Breadth 12.7 pts (32%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DFine · near

40
Dongguan Jiasheng… · near

40
Hermes Microvision · near

40
Inpex · near

40
Lyondell Chemical… · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lyondell's Innovation Score is 40.2/100 (top 36% 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 Lyondell?

Each dot is one of Lyondell’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). Lyondell’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lyondell's grants concentrate

Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 68.4% of grants classified under C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Lyondell sits between Koganei Corporation and MGI Tech Co., Ltd..

Lyondell's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. moved from 21 to 12 grants (0.57x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Koganei

57
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57
Kyosan Electric M…

57
La-z-boy Incorpor…

57
Mastercard Canada…

57
Medical Components

57
Metrologic Instru…

57
MGI Tech

57
Lyondell Chemical… ◀

57

What this shows Lyondell holds 57 patents at rank #5,955, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lyondell

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,955 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lyondell, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds), Lyondell ranks #109 of 2,691 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

DFine, Inc. 40 Hermes Microvision Inc. 40 Inpex Corporation 40 Dongguan Jiasheng Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

ETO Magnetic GMBH 16.0 avg Alltop Electronics (SUZHOU) Ltd. 16.0 avg Pentair Water Pool and Spa, Inc. 16.0 avg Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd. 16.0 avg

Lyondell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.5%
2016	3	5.3%
2017	9	15.8%
2018	10	17.5%
2019	7	12.3%
2020	8	14.0%
2021	6	10.5%
2022	6	10.5%
2023	4	7.0%
2024	2	3.5%

Which technologies does Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. patent most?

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 39

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 31

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 21

B01D - Separation 13

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 9

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 4

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

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

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

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 1

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.'s lead technology class is C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds), 68.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07C
Ranked #5,957 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. against Koganei Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.2/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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