Where does Stepan Specialty Products, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stepan Specialty Products, LLC ranks #33,439 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 Stepan Specialty Products, LLC hold?

Stepan Specialty Products, LLC holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Stepan Specialty Products, LLC's Innovation Score?

Stepan Specialty Products, LLC has an Innovation Score of 33.4 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Stepan Specialty Products, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stepan Specialty Products, LLC's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Stepan Specialty Products, LLC's patents?

Stepan Specialty Products, LLC's patents average 24.4 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 Stepan Specialty Products, LLC 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

Stepan Specialty Products, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Stepan Specialty Products, LLC focus on?

Stepan Specialty Products, LLC's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 4 patents, ranking #424 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stepan ranks #33,439 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 10 technology areas.

#33,439
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.4/100): 24.4
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33439 · US Corporation #33,439 · 8 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #33,439/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Starvr
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Starvr 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 Stepan’s 33.4 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 7.6 pts (23%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 14.6 pts (44%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Stepan Specialty… · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stepan's Innovation Score is 33.4/100 (44th percentile 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 Stepan?

Each dot is one of Stepan’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). Stepan’s own 24.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Stepan's grants concentrate

Stepan Specialty Products, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Stepan sits between Starvr Corporation and Storz Medical AG.

Starvr

8
State Grid Huzhou…

8
State Grid Zhejia…

8
Stealth Innovativ…

8
Sterilumen

8
Stoke Therapeutics

8
Stork Titan B V

8
Storz Medical

8
Stepan Specialty… ◀

8

What this shows Stepan holds 8 patents at rank #33,269, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stepan

By rank, the assignees closest to #33,269 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Stepan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Stepan Specialty Products, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	37.5%
2016	1	12.5%
2019	1	12.5%
2020	2	25.0%
2021	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Stepan Specialty Products, LLC patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 4

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 3

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 3

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 2

C11C - Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils OR WAXES; CANDLES; Fats, Oils OR Fatty Acids BY Chemical Modification OF Fats, Oils, OR Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom 2

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 2

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Stepan Specialty Products, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stepan Specialty Products, LLC's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #33,439 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stepan Specialty Products, LLC against Starvr Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.4/100 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

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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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