Where does Suncor Energy Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Suncor Energy Inc. ranks #5,476 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 Suncor Energy Inc. hold?

Suncor Energy Inc. holds 63 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 53 technology areas.

What is Suncor Energy Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Suncor Energy Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Suncor Energy Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Suncor Energy Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -9% 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 Suncor Energy Inc.'s patents?

Suncor Energy Inc.'s patents average 30.0 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 Suncor Energy Inc. 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

Suncor Energy Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Suncor Energy Inc. focus on?

Suncor Energy Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 26 patents, ranking #51 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 53 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 63 granted patents across 53 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: 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 GAS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Suncor ranks #5,476 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 63 patents across 53 technology areas.

#5,476
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 30.0
avg claims per patent: -9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5476 · Foreign Corporation #5,476 · 63 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 63 grants
UPPER-Q #5,476/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Silanna UV Pte
CPC-WIDE C10G · 53 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 30.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -9% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Silanna UV Technologies Pte Ltd (±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 Suncor’s 59.6 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 14.4 pts (24%) Velocity 5.3 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Element Biosciences · near

60
Liebherr-werk Biberach · near

60
Suncor Energy · this assignee

60
National Instruments · near

60
Nokia · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Suncor's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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 Suncor?

Each dot is one of Suncor’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). Suncor’s own 30.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Suncor's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Suncor Energy Inc. received 29 grants versus 32 in 2015–2019 (-9% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 9 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 1. Lead class C10G accounts for 41.3% of the portfolio across 53 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Silanna UV Technologies Pte Ltd (#5,472) and Tyco Electronics UK Ltd (#5,480).

Suncor's three-year grant acceleration

Suncor Energy Inc. shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Silanna UV Pte

63
Simplify Medical…

63
Skyhook Wireless

63
Sumitomo Pharma

63
Taser Internation…

63
Tempus Labs

63
Therma-stor

63
Tyco UK

63
Suncor Energy ◀

63

What this shows Suncor holds 63 patents at rank #5,476, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Suncor

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,476 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Suncor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), Suncor ranks #51 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Liebherr-werk Biberach GMBH 60 Element Biosciences, Inc. 60 National Instruments Corporation 60 Nokia 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (30.0 here).

Levi Strauss & Co. 30.1 avg AG 18, LLC 29.8 avg Tokitae LLC 30.2 avg Gaming Arts, LLC 29.8 avg

Suncor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Suncor Energy Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	11.1%
2016	8	12.7%
2017	9	14.3%
2018	3	4.8%
2019	5	7.9%
2020	6	9.5%
2021	8	12.7%
2022	7	11.1%
2023	7	11.1%
2024	1	1.6%
2025partial year	2	3.2%

Which technologies does Suncor Energy Inc. patent most?

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 26

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 13

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 11

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 10

B01D - Separation 8

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 5

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 4

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

B09C - Reclamation OF Contaminated Soil 3

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

Top 15 of 53 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

Suncor Energy Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Suncor Energy Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 GAS), 41.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #5,476 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Suncor Energy Inc. against Silanna UV Technologies Pte Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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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