Is Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung's recent grant velocity is -75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung

Q: Where does Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung ranks #25,697 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung 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 PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G01J (MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRARED, VISIBLE OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Alfred-wegener-institut ranks #25,697 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 23 technology areas.

#25,697
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.3/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25697 · Foreign Corporation #25,697 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #25,697/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH ALC HOLDINGS
CPC-FOCUS G01J · 23 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ALC Holdings, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alfred-wegener-insti… · this assignee

37
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Alfred-wegener-institut's Innovation Score is 37.3/100 (top 44% 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 Alfred-wegener-institut's grants concentrate

Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 20% of grants classified under G01J (MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRARED, VISIBLE OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Alfred-wegener-institut sits between ALC Holdings, Inc. and Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd..

Alfred-wegener-institut's three-year grant acceleration

Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

ALC Holdings

10
ALFA Wassermann

10
Alfdex AB

10
Alfred E MANN Ins…

10
Alken

10
Allen-vanguard

10
Allied Moulded Pr…

10
Allwinner Technol…

10
Alfred-wegener-in… ◀

10

What this shows Alfred-wegener-institut holds 10 patents at rank #25,667, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Alfred-wegener-institut

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,667 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01J (Measurement OF Intensity)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Alfred-wegener-institut's primary technology class.

Alfred-wegener-institut's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	40.0%
2017	3	30.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2021	1	10.0%
2024	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Alfred-wegener-institut, Helmholtz-zentrum FUER Polar—und Meeresforschung patent most?

G01J - MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRARED, VISIBLE OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY 2

B64C - AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS 2

B64D - EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT 2

B64U - UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR 2

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 2

C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE 1

B09C - RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL 1

C12R - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES C12C - C12Q, RELATING TO MICROORGANISMS 1

C02F - TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE 1

Y02W - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT 1

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 1

B66C - CRANES; LOAD-ENGAGING ELEMENTS OR DEVICES FOR CRANES, CAPSTANS, WINCHES, OR TACKLES 1

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 1

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 1

G01M - TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,697

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

37.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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