Where does Ticona LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ticona LLC ranks #1,868 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 Ticona LLC hold?

Ticona LLC holds 215 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 78 technology areas.

What is Ticona LLC's Innovation Score?

Ticona LLC has an Innovation Score of 69.2 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ticona LLC focus on?

Ticona LLC's top technology area is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds) with 112 patents, ranking #39 of 2,352 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 78 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ticona LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ticona LLC's recent grant velocity is -41% 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 Ticona LLC's patents?

Ticona LLC's patents average 24.5 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 Ticona LLC 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 US Corporation

Ticona LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 215 granted patents across 78 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: C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ticona ranks #1,868 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 215 patents across 78 technology areas.

#1,868
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.2/100): 24.5
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1868 · US Corporation #1,868 · 215 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 215 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,868/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chicony
CPC-WIDE C08L · 78 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chicony Electronics 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 Ticona’s 69.2 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 18.6 pts (27%) Velocity 10.9 pts (16%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 14.7 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
MediaTek Singapore Pte · near

69
Xerox · near

69
Ticona · this assignee

69
Watts Regulator · near

69
Itron · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ticona's Innovation Score is 69.2/100 (top 1% 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 Ticona?

Each dot is one of Ticona’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). Ticona’s own 24.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Ticona's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ticona LLC received 75 grants versus 127 in 2015–2019 (-41% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 39 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 9. Lead class C08L accounts for 52.1% of the portfolio across 78 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. (#1,864) and Darfon Electronics Corp. (#1,872).

Ticona's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ticona LLC moved from 33 to 54 grants (1.64x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #356. See the growth leaderboard.

Chicony

215
Ge-hitachi Nuclea…

215
Hulu

215
Saab AB

215
Westerngeco L L C

215
Zoetis Services

215
Ticona ◀

215
AWI Licensing

214
Darfon

214

What this shows Ticona holds 215 patents at rank #1,868, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ticona

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,868 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ticona, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), Ticona ranks #39 of 2,352 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. 69 Xerox Corporation 69 Watts Regulator Co. 69 Itron, Inc. 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.5 here).

Wolfspeed, Inc. 24.5 avg Nutanix, Inc. 24.5 avg Smart Technologies ULC 24.5 avg Tula eTechnology, Inc. 24.5 avg

Ticona's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

View data table

Ticona LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	39	18.1%
2016	39	18.1%
2017	22	10.2%
2018	15	7.0%
2019	12	5.6%
2020	9	4.2%
2021	12	5.6%
2022	12	5.6%
2023	20	9.3%
2024	22	10.2%
2025partial year	13	6.0%

Which technologies does Ticona LLC patent most?

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 112

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 100

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 66

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 52

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 46

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 40

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 35

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 30

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 27

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 25

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 24

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 15

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 15

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 14

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

Top 15 of 78 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

Ticona LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ticona LLC's lead technology class is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), 52.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08L
Ranked #1,868 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ticona LLC against Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.2/100 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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