Where does Shawcor Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shawcor Ltd. ranks #14,262 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 Shawcor Ltd. hold?

Shawcor Ltd. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Shawcor Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Shawcor Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Shawcor Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shawcor Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -67% 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 Shawcor Ltd.'s patents?

Shawcor Ltd.'s patents average 18.7 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 Shawcor Ltd. 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

Shawcor Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Shawcor Ltd. focus on?

Shawcor Ltd.'s top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 13 patents, ranking #134 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 26 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shawcor ranks #14,262 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 26 technology areas.

#14,262
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14262 · Foreign Corporation #14,262 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,262/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Seyond
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Seyond, Inc. (±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 Shawcor’s 41.8 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 10.7 pts (26%) Velocity 1.9 pts (5%) Breadth 18.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shawcor · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shawcor's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 Shawcor?

Each dot is one of Shawcor’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). Shawcor’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Shawcor's grants concentrate

Shawcor Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 61.9% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Shawcor sits between Seyond, Inc. and Shenzhen Genorivision Technology Co. Ltd..

Shawcor's three-year grant acceleration

Shawcor Ltd. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Seyond

21
SF Diamond

21
Shanghai Easy-use…

21
Sharp Fluidics

21
Shedrain

21
Shenzhen Ennoplus…

21
Shenzhen FLY Rode…

21
Shenzhen Genorivi…

21
Shawcor ◀

21

What this shows Shawcor holds 21 patents at rank #14,251, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shawcor

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,251 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Shawcor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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.

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Shawcor Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	9.5%
2016	1	4.8%
2017	4	19.0%
2018	4	19.0%
2019	4	19.0%
2021	3	14.3%
2022	1	4.8%
2023	1	4.8%
2025partial year	1	4.8%

Which technologies does Shawcor Ltd. patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 13

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 12

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 8

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 5

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 5

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

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

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

Top 15 of 26 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

Shawcor Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shawcor Ltd.'s lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 61.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #14,262 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shawcor Ltd. against Seyond, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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.

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.