Where does Tenaris Connections Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tenaris Connections Limited ranks #30,356 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 Tenaris Connections Limited hold?

Tenaris Connections Limited holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Tenaris Connections Limited's Innovation Score?

Tenaris Connections Limited has an Innovation Score of 34.7 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Tenaris Connections Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tenaris Connections Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Tenaris Connections Limited's patents?

Tenaris Connections Limited's patents average 26.0 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 Tenaris Connections Limited 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

Tenaris Connections Limited

Q: What technology areas does Tenaris Connections Limited focus on?

Tenaris Connections Limited's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 5 patents, ranking #419 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tenaris ranks #30,356 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 11 technology areas.

#30,356
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.7/100): 26.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30356 · Foreign Corporation #30,356 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #30,356/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Telephonics
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Telephonics Corp. (±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 Tenaris’s 34.7 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 8.0 pts (23%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (43%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tenaris Connections · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tenaris's Innovation Score is 34.7/100 (48th percentile 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 Tenaris?

Each dot is one of Tenaris’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). Tenaris’s own 26.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tenaris's grants concentrate

Tenaris Connections Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Tenaris sits between Telephonics Corp. and Tesseract Health, Inc..

Telephonics

9
Telit Communicati…

9
Telling Industries

9
Tempus Ex Machina

9
Teneobio

9
Terran Biosciences

9
Tescan Brno s r o

9
Tesseract Health

9
Tenaris Connectio… ◀

9

What this shows Tenaris holds 9 patents at rank #30,380, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tenaris

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,380 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Tenaris's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 48th percentile higher than 48% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Tenaris Connections Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	44.4%
2016	5	55.6%

Which technologies does Tenaris Connections Limited patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 5

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

C22C - Alloys 3

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 3

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

B23G - Thread CUTTING; Working OF Screws, Bolt Heads, OR Nuts, IN Conjunction Therewith 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Tenaris Connections Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tenaris Connections Limited's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #30,356 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tenaris Connections Limited against Telephonics Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.7/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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