Where does Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC ranks #3,785 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 Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC hold?

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC's Innovation Score?

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC has an Innovation Score of 57.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC's recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC's patents?

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC's patents average 19.0 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 Suncoke Technology AND Development 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

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC

Q: What technology areas does Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC focus on?

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC's top technology area is C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials) with 85 patents, ranking #1 of 152 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 96 granted patents across 43 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: C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Suncoke ranks #3,785 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 43 technology areas.

#3,785
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.3/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3785 · US Corporation #3,785 · 96 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,785/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mitsubishi Tanabe…
CPC-WIDE C10B · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma 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 Suncoke’s 57.3 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 15.8 pts (28%) Velocity 6.9 pts (12%) Breadth 23.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Children's National… · near

57
Elbit Systems · near

57
National Central… · near

57
Suncoke Technology… · this assignee

57
University OF Hawaii · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Suncoke's Innovation Score is 57.3/100 (top 5% 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 Suncoke?

Each dot is one of Suncoke’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). Suncoke’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Suncoke's grants concentrate

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 88.5% of grants classified under C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (20 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2017. By volume, Suncoke sits between Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation and Universitat Zurich.

Suncoke's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC moved from 29 to 30 grants (1.03x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Mitsubishi Tanabe…

96
Rogers

96
Rosemount Tank Ra…

96
Shenzhen SNC Opto

96
TRW Automotive U S

96
Teradiode

96
The Hospital for…

96
Universitat Zurich

96
Suncoke Technolog… ◀

96

What this shows Suncoke holds 96 patents at rank #3,785, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Suncoke

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,785 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Pr…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Suncoke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Pr…), Suncoke ranks #1 of 152 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

University OF Hawaii 57 Elbit Systems Ltd. 57 Children's National Medical Center 57 National Central University 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

Veeva Systems Inc. 19.0 avg Carbo Ceramics, Inc. 19.0 avg Medicalip Co., Ltd. 19.0 avg Intersil Americas LLC 19.0 avg

Suncoke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.2%
2016	8	8.3%
2017	3	3.1%
2018	6	6.3%
2019	3	3.1%
2020	6	6.3%
2021	20	20.8%
2022	11	11.5%
2023	15	15.6%
2024	4	4.2%
2025partial year	16	16.7%

Which technologies does Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC patent most?

C10B - Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials 85

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 23

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 14

C21B - Manufacture OF Iron OR Steel 11

B01D - Separation 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

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 9

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 9

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

C21C - Processing OF Pig-iron, e.g. Refining, Manufacture OF Wrought-iron OR STEEL; Treatment IN Molten State OF Ferrous Alloys 6

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 6

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 6

C23D - Enamelling OF, OR Applying A Vitreous Layer TO, Metals 6

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

Top 15 of 43 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

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC's lead technology class is C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials), 88.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10B
Ranked #3,785 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC against Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.3/100 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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