Where does Quaker Chemical Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Quaker Chemical Corporation ranks #37,129 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 Quaker Chemical Corporation hold?

Quaker Chemical Corporation holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Quaker Chemical Corporation's Innovation Score?

Quaker Chemical Corporation has an Innovation Score of 49.9 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Quaker Chemical Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Quaker Chemical Corporation's recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Quaker Chemical Corporation's patents?

Quaker Chemical Corporation's patents average 15.9 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 Quaker Chemical 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

Quaker Chemical Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Quaker Chemical Corporation focus on?

Quaker Chemical Corporation's top technology area is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition) with 4 patents, ranking #83 of 300 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 2017–2024. 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: 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, Quaker ranks #37,129 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 14 technology areas.

#37,129
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.9/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R37129 · US Corporation #37,129 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #37,129/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Qingdao Jiahe…
CPC-FOCUS C10M · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Qingdao Jiahe Yongrun Beauty Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Quaker’s 49.9 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 (14%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 13.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Quaker Chemical · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Quaker's Innovation Score is 49.9/100 (top 14% 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 Quaker?

Each dot is one of Quaker’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). Quaker’s own 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Quaker's grants concentrate

Quaker Chemical Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 57.1% 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 2024 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Quaker sits between Qingdao Jiahe Yongrun Beauty Technology Co., Ltd. and Quantum Genomics.

Quaker's three-year grant acceleration

Quaker Chemical Corporation shows 3 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.

Qingdao Jiahe Yon…

7
Qingdao Technolog…

7
Qrisq Analytics

7
Qrypt

7
Quality Manufactu…

7
Quality Standards

7
Quantify Labs

7
Quantum Genomics

7
Quaker Chemical ◀

7

What this shows Quaker holds 7 patents at rank #37,101, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Quaker

By rank, the assignees closest to #37,101 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10M (Lubricating Compositions)

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

Quaker's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Quaker Chemical Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	28.6%
2018	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%
2024	3	42.9%

Which technologies does Quaker Chemical Corporation patent most?

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 4

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 4

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

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 2

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 2

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 1

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 1

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 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

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

Quaker Chemical Corporation's lead technology class is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10M
Ranked #37,129 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Quaker Chemical Corporation against Qingdao Jiahe Yongrun Beauty Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.9/100 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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