Where does Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited ranks #7,921 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 Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited hold?

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited's Innovation Score?

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited's recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited's patents?

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited's patents average 13.2 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 Sasol Technology Proprietary 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

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited

Q: What technology areas does Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited focus on?

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited's top technology area is 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) with 26 patents, ranking #51 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: 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 GAS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sasol ranks #7,921 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 22 technology areas.

#7,921
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7921 · Foreign Corporation #7,921 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,921/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Reel Power Licensing
CPC-FOCUS C10G · 22 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Reel Power Licensing Corp. (±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 Sasol’s 38.3 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 12.9 pts (34%) Velocity 0.8 pts (2%) Breadth 16.6 pts (43%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AAI · near

38
Cantor Index · near

38
Parasol Medical · near

38
Sasol Technology… · this assignee

38
Solantro Semiconductor · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sasol's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Sasol?

Each dot is one of Sasol’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). Sasol’s own 13.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sasol's grants concentrate

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 63.4% of grants classified under 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 GAS). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Sasol sits between Reel Power Licensing Corp. and Shya Hsin Packaging Industry (CHINA) Co., Ltd..

Sasol's three-year grant acceleration

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Reel Power Licens…

41
Rockwell Automati…

41
Rowan University

41
Safran Power Units

41
Sciocs

41
Sekisui Polymatech

41
Shenzhen Voxtech

41
Shya Hsin Packagi…

41
Sasol Technology… ◀

41

What this shows Sasol holds 41 patents at rank #7,919, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sasol

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,919 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sasol, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), Sasol ranks #51 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Cantor Index, LLC 38 AAI Corporation 38 Parasol Medical, LLC 38 Solantro Semiconductor Corp. 38

Sasol's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	26.8%
2016	12	29.3%
2017	6	14.6%
2018	3	7.3%
2019	8	19.5%
2022	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited patent most?

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 26

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 21

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 19

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 17

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

B01D - Separation 4

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 4

F22G - Superheating OF Steam 3

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 3

C10J - Production OF Producer GAS, Water-gas, Synthesis GAS From Solid Carbonaceous Material, OR Mixtures Containing These Gases ; Carburetting AIR OR Other Gases 2

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 2

B41D - Apparatus FOR THE Mechanical Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces FOR Stereotype PRINTING; Shaping Elastic OR Deformable Material TO Form Printing Surfaces 1

G21D - Nuclear Power Plant 1

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

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited's lead technology class is 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 GAS), 63.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #7,921 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sasol Technology Proprietary Limited against Reel Power Licensing Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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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