Where does Tercel IP Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tercel IP Limited ranks #25,372 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Tercel IP Limited hold?

Tercel IP Limited holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Tercel IP Limited's Innovation Score?

Tercel IP Limited has an Innovation Score of 22.8 out of 100 (top 89% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Tercel IP Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tercel IP Limited's recent grant velocity is -78% 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 Tercel IP Limited's patents?

Tercel IP Limited's patents average 17.8 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 Tercel IP 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

Tercel IP Limited

Q: What technology areas does Tercel IP Limited focus on?

Tercel IP Limited's top technology area is E21B (EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: E21B (EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tercel ranks #25,372 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 1 technology areas.

#25,372
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 89%
by Innovation Score (22.8/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -78%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25372 · Foreign Corporation #25,372 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,372/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH TELEFLEX LIFE SCIENC…
CPC-NARROW E21B · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -78% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Teleflex LIFE Sciences 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tercel IP · this assignee

23
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Tercel's Innovation Score is 22.8/100 (top 89% 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.

Where Tercel's grants concentrate

Tercel IP Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under E21B (EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Tercel sits between Teleflex LIFE Sciences PTE. Ltd. and Texas Research International, Inc..

Teleflex LIFE Sci…

11
Telus Communicati…

11
Tempest Therapeut…

11
Teoco

11
Terzani S R L

11
Tetrasun

11
Tevosol

11
Texas Research In…

11
Tercel IP ◀

11

What this shows Tercel holds 11 patents at rank #25,343, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tercel

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,343 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR ROCK Drilling)

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

Tercel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

23 Top 89% higher than 11% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Tercel IP Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	36.4%
2016	3	27.3%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	1	9.1%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Tercel IP Limited patent most?

E21B - EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS 11

Top 1 of 1 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,372

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

22.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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