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Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future

Q: Where does Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future ranks #11,821 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future 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 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).

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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.

#11,821
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,821/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Samsung Electro-Meha…
CPC-FOCUS C10G · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

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.

How Syncrude’s 41.5 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 11.4 pts (27%) Velocity 4.4 pts (11%) Breadth 16.6 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Blackship Development · near

42
Enza Zaden Beheer B V · near

42
Illumio · near

42
Limagrain Europe · near

42
Syncrude Canada in… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Syncrude?

Each dot is one of Syncrude’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). Syncrude’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Syncrude's grants concentrate

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's three-year grant acceleration

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.

Song Chuan Precis…

26
Soracom

26
Staedtler Mars &…

26
Sunstar

26
Samsung Electro-m…

26
San Diego State U…

26
Sandvik Mining an…

26
Senic

26
Syncrude Canada i… ◀

26

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.

Companies ranked near Syncrude

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,807 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Syncrude, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), Syncrude ranks #75 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Limagrain Europe S.A. 42 Illumio, Inc. 42 Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. 42 Blackship Technologies Development LLC 42

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

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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Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future patent grants by year, 2015–2025
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%

Which technologies does Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future 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 18

B01D - Separation 5

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 2

C10C - Working-up Pitch, Asphalt, Bitumen, TAR; Pyroligneous Acid 2

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 2

B03B - Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids OR Using Pneumatic Tables OR Jigs 2

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

B09B - Disposal OF Solid Waste NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 1

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 1

Top 15 of 22 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

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.

Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future'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), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #11,821 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future against Song Chuan Precision Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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