Where does SUN Chemical B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SUN Chemical B.V. ranks #17,239 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 SUN Chemical B.V. hold?

SUN Chemical B.V. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is SUN Chemical B.V.'s Innovation Score?

SUN Chemical B.V. has an Innovation Score of 56.3 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SUN Chemical B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SUN Chemical B.V.'s recent grant velocity is -64% 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 SUN Chemical B.V.'s patents?

SUN Chemical B.V.'s patents average 15.0 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 SUN Chemical B.V. 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

SUN Chemical B.V.

Q: What technology areas does SUN Chemical B.V. focus on?

SUN Chemical B.V.'s top technology area is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor) with 11 patents, ranking #276 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 24 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: C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SUN ranks #17,239 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 24 technology areas.

#17,239
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17239 · Foreign Corporation #17,239 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,239/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Stanley Fastening…
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Stanley Fastening Systems, L.P. (±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 SUN’s 56.3 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 10.0 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 17.3 pts (31%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
SUN Chemical B V · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SUN's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (top 6% 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 SUN?

Each dot is one of SUN’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). SUN’s own 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where SUN's grants concentrate

SUN Chemical B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 64.7% of grants classified under C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, SUN sits between Stanley Fastening Systems, L.P. and Syntilla Medical, LLC.

SUN's three-year grant acceleration

SUN Chemical B.V. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Stanley Fastening…

17
Star

17
Steiner-optik

17
Streamscale

17
Superior Energy S…

17
Surgical Design

17
Suzhou Sonavox

17
Syntilla Medical

17
SUN Chemical B V ◀

17

What this shows SUN holds 17 patents at rank #17,194, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SUN

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,194 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

SUN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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SUN Chemical B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	11.8%
2016	5	29.4%
2017	3	17.6%
2019	1	5.9%
2023	1	5.9%
2024	3	17.6%
2025partial year	2	11.8%

Which technologies does SUN Chemical B.V. patent most?

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 5

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 2

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 2

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

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

Top 15 of 24 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

SUN Chemical B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SUN Chemical B.V.'s lead technology class is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi), 64.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #17,239 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SUN Chemical B.V. against Stanley Fastening Systems, L.P., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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

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