Where does Aixtron SE rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aixtron SE ranks #5,196 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 Aixtron SE hold?

Aixtron SE holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Aixtron SE's Innovation Score?

Aixtron SE has an Innovation Score of 47.9 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Aixtron SE's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aixtron SE's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Aixtron SE's patents?

Aixtron SE's patents average 12.7 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 Aixtron SE 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

Aixtron SE

Q: What technology areas does Aixtron SE focus on?

Aixtron SE's top technology area is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General) with 61 patents, ranking #44 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 32 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: C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aixtron ranks #5,196 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 32 technology areas.

#5,196
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.9/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5196 · Foreign Corporation #5,196 · 66 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,196/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acme United
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acme United Corporation (±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
Global IP Holdings · near

48
Ab Initio Technology · near

48
Aixtron SE · this assignee

48
Connaught · near

48
Nishikawa Rubber · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aixtron's Innovation Score is 47.9/100 (top 18% 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 Aixtron's grants concentrate

Aixtron SE is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 92.4% of grants classified under C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Aixtron sits between Valqua, Ltd. and Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc..

Aixtron's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Aixtron SE moved from 22 to 19 grants (0.86x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Valqua

67
Webroot

67
Warrior Sports

67
Zhejiang Cfmoto P…

67
Axens

66
Acme United

66
Advanced Liquid L…

66
Aerojet Rocketdyne

66
Aixtron SE ◀

66

What this shows Aixtron holds 66 patents at rank #5,193, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aixtron

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,193 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aixtron, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), Aixtron ranks #44 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Connaught Electronics Ltd. 48 Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd. 48 Ab Initio Technology LLC 48 Global IP Holdings, LLC 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.7 here).

Vetco Gray Scandinavia AS 12.7 avg Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 12.7 avg J.S.T. Corporation 12.7 avg Amazing Microelectronic Corp. 12.7 avg

Aixtron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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Aixtron SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.5%
2016	2	3.0%
2017	8	12.1%
2018	6	9.1%
2019	11	16.7%
2020	6	9.1%
2021	5	7.6%
2022	5	7.6%
2023	5	7.6%
2024	9	13.6%
2025partial year	6	9.1%

Which technologies does Aixtron SE patent most?

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 61

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 24

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 12

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 10

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 5

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 2

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 2

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,196

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Aixtron SE's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aixtron SE's lead technology class is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap), 92.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #5,196 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aixtron SE against Valqua, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.9/100 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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