Where does S.M.E. Products LP rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), S.M.E. Products LP ranks #17,210 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 S.M.E. Products LP hold?

S.M.E. Products LP holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is S.M.E. Products LP's Innovation Score?

S.M.E. Products LP has an Innovation Score of 35.6 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is S.M.E. Products LP's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

S.M.E. Products LP's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 S.M.E. Products LP's patents?

S.M.E. Products LP's patents average 28.2 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 S.M.E. Products LP 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

S.M.E. Products LP

Q: What technology areas does S.M.E. Products LP focus on?

S.M.E. Products LP's top technology area is F25J (Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State) with 17 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: F25J (Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, S.m.e. ranks #17,210 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 9 technology areas.

#17,210
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.6/100): 28.2
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17210 · US Corporation #17,210 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,210/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ross Technology
CPC-NARROW F25J · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 28.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ross Technology LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
S M E Products · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows S.m.e.'s Innovation Score is 35.6/100 (top 49% 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.

Where S.m.e.'s grants concentrate

S.M.E. Products LP is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F25J (Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, S.m.e. sits between Ross Technology LLC and Sagami Chemical Research Institute.

Ross Technology

17
Rovi Solutions

17
Rox Medical

17
Run Them Sweet

17
Sacmi Imola S C

17
Safekey Engineeri…

17
Saft America

17
Sagami Chemical R…

17
S M E Products ◀

17

What this shows S.M.E. holds 17 patents at rank #17,141, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SME

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,141 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F25J (Liquefaction)

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

S.m.e.'s Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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S.M.E. Products LP patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	41.2%
2017	3	17.6%
2018	4	23.5%
2019	1	5.9%
2020	2	11.8%

Which technologies does S.M.E. Products LP patent most?

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 17

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 9

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 5

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 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

B01D - Separation 3

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 2

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#17,210

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

S.M.E. Products LP's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

S.M.E. Products LP's lead technology class is F25J (Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F25J
Ranked #17,210 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare S.M.E. Products LP against Ross Technology LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.6/100 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

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