Where does Nalco Company LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nalco Company LLC ranks #4,053 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 Nalco Company LLC hold?

Nalco Company LLC holds 89 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Nalco Company LLC's Innovation Score?

Nalco Company LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.5 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nalco Company LLC focus on?

Nalco Company LLC's top technology area is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge) with 19 patents, ranking #54 of 1,366 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nalco Company LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nalco Company LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Nalco Company LLC's patents?

Nalco Company LLC's patents average 15.0 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 Nalco Company 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

Nalco Company LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 89 granted patents across 58 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nalco ranks #4,053 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 89 patents across 58 technology areas.

#4,053
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.5/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4053 · US Corporation #4,053 · 89 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 89 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,053/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mapper Lithography…
CPC-WIDE C02F · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mapper Lithography IP B.V. (±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 Nalco’s 49.5 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 15.5 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (51%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hyosung Heavy… · near

50
Flexible Steel Lacing · near

50
Nalco · this assignee

50
OptumSoft · near

50
Taptext · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nalco's Innovation Score is 49.5/100 (top 15% 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 Nalco?

Each dot is one of Nalco’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). Nalco’s own 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Nalco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nalco Company LLC received 0 grants versus 89 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 39 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 16. Lead class C02F accounts for 21.3% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mapper Lithography IP B.V. (#4,049) and Pregis Innovative Packaging LLC (#4,057).

Mapper Lithograph…

89
Mikro Mesa Techno…

89
Mobileiron

89
Mclaren Automotive

89
National Universi…

89
Nippon Chemi-con

89
Nthdegree Worldwi…

89
Pregis Innovative…

89
Nalco ◀

89

What this shows Nalco holds 89 patents at rank #4,053, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nalco

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,053 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C02F (Treatment OF Water)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nalco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C02F (Treatment OF Water), Nalco ranks #54 of 1,366 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Flexible Steel Lacing Company 50 Taptext LLC 50 OptumSoft, Inc. 50 Hyosung Heavy Industries Corporation 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. 15.0 avg Institut Mines Telecom 15.0 avg Staubli Faverges 15.0 avg Axis Lighting Inc. 15.0 avg

Nalco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

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

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Nalco Company LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	39	43.8%
2016	34	38.2%
2017	16	18.0%

Which technologies does Nalco Company LLC patent most?

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 19

B01D - Separation 18

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 17

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 14

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 11

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 6

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 6

C23F - Non-mechanical Removal OF Metallic Material From Surface ; Inhibiting Corrosion OF Metallic Material OR Incrustation IN GENERAL; Multi-step Processes FOR Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material Involving AT Least ONE Process Provided FOR IN Class C23 AND AT Least ONE Process Covered BY Subclass C21d 6

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

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

Top 15 of 58 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

Nalco Company LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nalco Company LLC's lead technology class is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge), 21.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C02F
Ranked #4,053 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nalco Company LLC against Mapper Lithography IP B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.5/100 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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