Where does Reliance Industries Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Reliance Industries Limited ranks #2,663 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 Reliance Industries Limited hold?

Reliance Industries Limited holds 146 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 75 technology areas.

What is Reliance Industries Limited's Innovation Score?

Reliance Industries Limited has an Innovation Score of 53.2 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Reliance Industries Limited focus on?

Reliance Industries Limited's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 47 patents, ranking #86 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 75 CPC subclasses total.

Is Reliance Industries Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Reliance Industries Limited's recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Reliance Industries Limited's patents?

Reliance Industries Limited's patents average 12.4 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 Reliance Industries Limited 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

Reliance Industries Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 146 granted patents across 75 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Reliance ranks #2,663 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 146 patents across 75 technology areas.

#2,663
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.2/100): 12.4
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2663 · Foreign Corporation #2,663 · 146 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 146 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,663/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH IPG Photonics
CPC-WIDE B01J · 75 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: IPG Photonics 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 Reliance’s 53.2 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 17.2 pts (32%) Velocity 3.6 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (14%)

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Dreamwell · near

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Electric Power… · near

53
Reliance Industries · this assignee

53
Roblox · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Reliance's Innovation Score is 53.2/100 (top 9% 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 Reliance?

Each dot is one of Reliance’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). Reliance’s own 12.4 claims/patent is at or below the 12.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Reliance's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Reliance Industries Limited received 44 grants versus 100 in 2015–2019 (-56% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 4. Lead class B01J accounts for 32.2% of the portfolio across 75 subclasses. Volume neighbours: IPG Photonics Corporation (#2,659) and Shenzhen Royole Technologies Co., Ltd. (#2,667).

Reliance's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Reliance Industries Limited moved from 45 to 24 grants (0.53x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,613. See the growth leaderboard.

IPG Photonics

146
Joseph Voegele

146
Kardium

146
Kohler Mira

146
Rohm and Haas Mat…

146
Roquette Freres

146
Safran Transmissi…

146
Shenzhen Royole

146
Reliance Industri… ◀

146

What this shows Reliance holds 146 patents at rank #2,663, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Reliance

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,663 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Reliance, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), Reliance ranks #86 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Roblox Corporation 53 C.R.F. Societa' Consortile PER Azioni 53 Dreamwell, Ltd. 53 Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.4 here).

Memjet Technology Limited 12.4 avg Renesas Electronics Corporation 12.4 avg National University Corporation University of Toyama 12.4 avg Technische Universiteit Eindhoven 12.4 avg

Reliance's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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.

View data table

Reliance Industries Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	7.5%
2016	13	8.9%
2017	22	15.1%
2018	29	19.9%
2019	25	17.1%
2020	16	11.0%
2021	4	2.7%
2022	11	7.5%
2023	9	6.2%
2024	4	2.7%
2025partial year	2	1.4%

Which technologies does Reliance Industries Limited patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 47

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 34

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 32

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 24

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 23

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 13

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 11

B01D - Separation 11

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 11

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 10

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 10

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 9

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 6

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 6

Top 15 of 75 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

Reliance Industries Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Reliance Industries Limited's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 32.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #2,663 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Reliance Industries Limited against IPG Photonics Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.2/100 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

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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