Where does Albemarle Germany GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Albemarle Germany GMBH ranks #12,799 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 Albemarle Germany GMBH hold?

Albemarle Germany GMBH holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Albemarle Germany GMBH's Innovation Score?

Albemarle Germany GMBH has an Innovation Score of 40.4 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Albemarle Germany GMBH focus on?

Albemarle Germany GMBH's top technology area is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy) with 16 patents, ranking #385 of 2,332 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Albemarle Germany GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Albemarle Germany GMBH's recent grant velocity is +114% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Albemarle Germany GMBH's patents?

Albemarle Germany GMBH's patents average 14.9 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 Albemarle Germany 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

Albemarle Germany GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Albemarle ranks #12,799 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 21 technology areas.

#12,799
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.4/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +114%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12799 · Foreign Corporation #12,799 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #12,799/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aetrex Worldwide
CPC-FOCUS H01M · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +114% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aetrex Worldwide, Inc. (±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 Albemarle’s 40.4 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 11.0 pts (27%) Velocity 4.2 pts (10%) Breadth 16.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Albemarle Germany · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Albemarle's Innovation Score is 40.4/100 (top 36% 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 Albemarle?

Each dot is one of Albemarle’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). Albemarle’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Albemarle's grants concentrate

Albemarle Germany GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 69.6% of grants classified under H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Albemarle sits between Aetrex Worldwide, Inc. and Array Tech, Inc..

Albemarle's three-year grant acceleration

Albemarle Germany GMBH shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Aetrex Worldwide

23
Airbiquity

23
Airex

23
Akhan Semiconduct…

23
Alps Green Devices

23
AP Memory Technol…

23
Apex Medical

23
Array Tech

23
Albemarle Germany ◀

23

What this shows Albemarle holds 23 patents at rank #12,790, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Albemarle

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,790 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

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

Albemarle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Albemarle Germany GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	8.7%
2018	2	8.7%
2019	3	13.0%
2020	3	13.0%
2021	5	21.7%
2022	3	13.0%
2023	1	4.3%
2024	3	13.0%
2025partial year	1	4.3%

Which technologies does Albemarle Germany GMBH patent most?

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 16

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 16

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 6

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 6

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 5

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 5

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 4

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 3

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 3

C22C - Alloys 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Albemarle Germany GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Albemarle Germany GMBH's lead technology class is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy), 69.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01M
Ranked #12,799 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Albemarle Germany GMBH against Aetrex Worldwide, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.4/100 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

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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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