Overall rank by patents
#11,821
of 49,997 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 22 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).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, Syncrude ranks #11,821 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 22 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R11821 · Foreign Corporation #11,821 · 26 grants
GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL
Nearest grant-volume peer: Samsung Electro-Mehanics Co., 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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Blackship Development · near
42 score
Enza Zaden Beheer B V · near
42 score
Illumio · near
42 score
Limagrain Europe · near
42 score
Syncrude Canada in… · this assignee
42 score
3D Lighting… · lowest
7 score
What this shows Syncrude's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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.
Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Syncrude sits between Song Chuan Precision Co., Ltd. and Senic Inc..
Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
Song Chuan Precision Co., Ltd.
26 patents
Soracom, Inc
26 patents
Staedtler Mars GMBH & Co. KG
26 patents
Sunstar Inc.
26 patents
Samsung Electro-Mehanics Co., Ltd.
26 patents
San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation
26 patents
Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools AB
26 patents
Senic Inc.
26 patents
Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future
26 patents
What this shows Syncrude holds 26 patents at rank #11,807, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #11,807 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in Syncrude's primary technology class.
Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Syncrude, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).
Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).
Syncrude's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
42 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 3.8% |
| 2016 | 3 | 11.5% |
| 2017 | 5 | 19.2% |
| 2019 | 2 | 7.7% |
| 2020 | 4 | 15.4% |
| 2021 | 3 | 11.5% |
| 2022 | 2 | 7.7% |
| 2023 | 2 | 7.7% |
| 2024 | 2 | 7.7% |
| 2025partial year | 2 | 7.7% |
Top 15 of 22 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#11,821
of 49,997 tracked assignees
41.5 out of 100
What to do with this data
Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future's patent record in context - here's where to go next.
Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.
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