Where does ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH ranks #11,530 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 ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH hold?

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH's Innovation Score?

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH has an Innovation Score of 40.8 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH focus on?

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH's top technology area is B22D (Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices) with 8 patents, ranking #50 of 377 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH's recent grant velocity is +20% 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 ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH's patents?

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH's patents average 16.0 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 ALD Vacuum Technologies 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

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B22D (Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ALD ranks #11,530 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 21 technology areas.

#11,530
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.8/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11530 · Foreign Corporation #11,530 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,530/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Access Medical Systems
CPC-FOCUS B22D · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Access Medical Systems, 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 ALD’s 40.8 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 11.4 pts (28%) Velocity 3.6 pts (9%) Breadth 16.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ALD Vacuum · this assignee

41
Asti Global Taiwan · near

41
Lumenetix · near

41
Venus by Maria Tash · near

41
Veris Industries · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ALD's Innovation Score is 40.8/100 (top 35% 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 ALD?

Each dot is one of ALD’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). ALD’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where ALD's grants concentrate

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 30.8% of grants classified under B22D (Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, ALD sits between Access Medical Systems, Ltd. and Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC.

ALD's three-year grant acceleration

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH shows 6 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.

Access Medical Sy…

26
ACE Light & Tech…

26
Adaptix

26
Aimpoint AB

26
Allergan Sales

26
Allstate Solution…

26
American Honda Mo…

26
Amneal Pharmaceut…

26
ALD Vacuum ◀

26

What this shows ALD holds 26 patents at rank #11,527, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ALD

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,527 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B22D (Casting OF Metals)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ALD, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B22D (Casting OF Metals), ALD ranks #50 of 377 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Lumenetix, LLC 41 Asti Global Inc., Taiwan 41 Veris Industries, LLC 41 Venus by Maria Tash, Inc. 41

ALD's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.8%
2017	3	11.5%
2018	1	3.8%
2019	5	19.2%
2020	3	11.5%
2021	3	11.5%
2022	1	3.8%
2023	1	3.8%
2024	4	15.4%
2025partial year	4	15.4%

Which technologies does ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH patent most?

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 8

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 8

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 6

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

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 5

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 4

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 4

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 3

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 3

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 3

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 2

G21F - Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor 2

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 2

C22C - Alloys 2

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 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

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH's lead technology class is B22D (Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices), 30.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B22D
Ranked #11,530 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ALD Vacuum Technologies GMBH against Access Medical Systems, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.8/100 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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