Where does Trinseo Europe GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trinseo Europe GMBH ranks #5,123 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 Trinseo Europe GMBH hold?

Trinseo Europe GMBH holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Trinseo Europe GMBH's Innovation Score?

Trinseo Europe GMBH has an Innovation Score of 58.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Trinseo Europe GMBH focus on?

Trinseo Europe GMBH's top technology area is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds) with 56 patents, ranking #89 of 2,352 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is Trinseo Europe GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Trinseo Europe GMBH's recent grant velocity is +30% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Trinseo Europe GMBH's patents?

Trinseo Europe GMBH's patents average 17.3 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 Trinseo Europe GMBH 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

Trinseo Europe GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 39 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, Trinseo ranks #5,123 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 39 technology areas.

#5,123
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.2/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: +30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5123 · Foreign Corporation #5,123 · 68 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,123/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Southern Methodist…
CPC-FOCUS C08L · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Southern Methodist University (±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 Trinseo’s 58.2 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 14.6 pts (25%) Velocity 11.1 pts (19%) Breadth 22.1 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DDP Specialty… · near

58
MONDAY COM · near

58
SK Hynix Nand… · near

58
Strong Force TP… · near

58
Trinseo Europe · this assignee

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trinseo's Innovation Score is 58.2/100 (top 5% 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 Trinseo?

Each dot is one of Trinseo’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). Trinseo’s own 17.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Trinseo's grants concentrate

Trinseo Europe GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 82.4% of grants classified under C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Trinseo sits between Southern Methodist University and Ubicquia, Inc..

Trinseo's three-year grant acceleration

Trinseo Europe GMBH shows 25 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Southern Methodis…

68
Sumitomo Precisio…

68
Tealium

68
Tracto-technik &…

68
Thoughtspot

68
Transphorm

68
Umbra

68
Ubicquia

68
Trinseo Europe ◀

68

What this shows Trinseo holds 68 patents at rank #5,119, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Trinseo

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,119 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Trinseo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), Trinseo ranks #89 of 2,352 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. 58 Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLC 58 DDP Specialty Electronic Materials US, LLC. 58 MONDAY.COM Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.3 here).

Tyfone, Inc. 17.3 avg Cercacor Laboratories, Inc. 17.3 avg John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC 17.3 avg Sanko Tekstil Isletmeleri San. Ve Tic. A.S. 17.3 avg

Trinseo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Trinseo Europe GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.4%
2016	5	7.4%
2017	7	10.3%
2018	7	10.3%
2019	5	7.4%
2020	5	7.4%
2021	5	7.4%
2022	6	8.8%
2023	11	16.2%
2024	8	11.8%
2025partial year	6	8.8%

Which technologies does Trinseo Europe GMBH patent most?

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 56

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 38

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 29

C08C - Treatment OR Chemical Modification OF Rubbers 12

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 11

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 9

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 9

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 8

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 7

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

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 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Top 15 of 39 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

Trinseo Europe GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Trinseo Europe GMBH's lead technology class is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), 82.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08L
Ranked #5,123 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trinseo Europe GMBH against Southern Methodist University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.2/100 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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