Where does Syncrude Canada Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Syncrude Canada Ltd. ranks #9,384 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 Syncrude Canada Ltd. hold?

Syncrude Canada Ltd. holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Syncrude Canada Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 47.1 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -35% 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 Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s patents?

Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s patents average 17.1 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 Syncrude Canada Ltd. 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

Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Syncrude Canada Ltd. focus on?

Syncrude Canada Ltd.'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 16 patents, ranking #84 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 30 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 #9,384 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 30 technology areas.

#9,384
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.1/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9384 · Foreign Corporation #9,384 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,384/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sakata Seed America
CPC-FOCUS C10G · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sakata Seed America, Inc. (±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 47.1 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 12.3 pts (26%) Velocity 5.2 pts (11%) Breadth 19.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Université Paris—Est… · near

47
Popsockets · near

47
Syncrude Canada · this assignee

47
XDI Holdings · near

47
BAE Systems Bofors AB · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Syncrude's Innovation Score is 47.1/100 (top 19% 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 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 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. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 47.1% 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 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Syncrude sits between Sophia School Corporation and Schreder.

Syncrude's three-year grant acceleration

Syncrude Canada Ltd. shows 7 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.

Sophia School

34
Stego-holding

34
Steris

34
Streem

34
Sakata Seed Ameri…

34
Samsara Networks

34
Schneider Electri…

34
Schreder

34
Syncrude Canada ◀

34

What this shows Syncrude holds 34 patents at rank #9,373, 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 #9,373 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 #84 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

XDI Holdings, LLC 47 Popsockets LLC 47 Université Paris—Est Créteil Val de Marne 47 BAE Systems Bofors AB 47

Syncrude's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	11.8%
2016	5	14.7%
2017	5	14.7%
2018	3	8.8%
2019	3	8.8%
2020	5	14.7%
2021	1	2.9%
2022	3	8.8%
2023	3	8.8%
2024	1	2.9%
2025partial year	1	2.9%

Which technologies does Syncrude Canada Ltd. 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 16

B01D - Separation 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 3

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 2

B04B - Centrifuges 2

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 2

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 1

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 1

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 1

Top 15 of 30 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.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Syncrude Canada Ltd.'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), 47.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #9,384 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Syncrude Canada Ltd. against Sophia School Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.1/100 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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