Where does Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH ranks #36,846 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 Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH hold?

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH's Innovation Score?

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH has an Innovation Score of 33.8 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH's recent grant velocity is +150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH's patents?

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH's patents average 16.7 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 Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH 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 Foreign Corporation

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH focus on?

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH's top technology area is C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers) with 6 patents, ranking #37 of 210 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Sing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Orion ranks #36,846 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 14 technology areas.

#36,846
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.8/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R36846 · Foreign Corporation #36,846 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #36,846/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Orano MED
CPC-FOCUS C09C · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Orano MED (±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 Orion’s 33.8 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 7.2 pts (21%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 13.2 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Orion Engineered… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orion's Innovation Score is 33.8/100 (45th percentile 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 Orion?

Each dot is one of Orion’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). Orion’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Orion's grants concentrate

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Sing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Orion sits between Orano MED and Osaka Electro-communication University.

Orion's three-year grant acceleration

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Orano MED

7
Orca Health

7
Orient Chemical I…

7
Oriental Union Ch…

7
Orlando Health

7
Orofino Pharmaceu…

7
Orthorebirth

7
Osaka Electro-com…

7
Orion Engineered… ◀

7

What this shows Orion holds 7 patents at rank #36,779, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orion

By rank, the assignees closest to #36,779 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials)

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

Orion's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	14.3%
2019	1	14.3%
2020	2	28.6%
2021	1	14.3%
2023	1	14.3%
2024	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH patent most?

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 6

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

B01D - Separation 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

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

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 2

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

F23J - Removal OR Treatment OF Combustion Products OR Combustion RESIDUES; Flues 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH's lead technology class is C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Sing), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09C
Ranked #36,846 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orion Engineered Carbons GMBH against Orano MED, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.8/100 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.

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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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