Where does ams Sensors Germany GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ams Sensors Germany GmbH ranks #18,377 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 ams Sensors Germany GmbH hold?

ams Sensors Germany GmbH holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is ams Sensors Germany GmbH's Innovation Score?

ams Sensors Germany GmbH has an Innovation Score of 50.4 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ams Sensors Germany GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ams Sensors Germany GmbH's recent grant velocity is +800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for ams Sensors Germany GmbH's patents?

ams Sensors Germany GmbH's patents average 18.1 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 ams Sensors 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

ams Sensors Germany GmbH

Q: What technology areas does ams Sensors Germany GmbH focus on?

ams Sensors Germany GmbH's top technology area is G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry) with 12 patents, ranking #103 of 1,478 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: 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, ams ranks #18,377 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 8 technology areas.

#18,377
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.4/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18377 · Foreign Corporation #18,377 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,377/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH epro
CPC-NARROW G01J · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: epro GmbH (±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 ams’s 50.4 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 9.6 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 10.0 pts (20%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ams Sensors Germany · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ams's Innovation Score is 50.4/100 (top 13% 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 ams?

Each dot is one of ams’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). ams’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where ams's grants concentrate

ams Sensors Germany GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 80% 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 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, ams sits between Zhongchao Special Security Technology Co., Ltd and miDiagnostics NV.

ams's three-year grant acceleration

ams Sensors Germany GmbH shows 8 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.

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15
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Zhuhai Shengchang

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What this shows ams holds 15 patents at rank #19,385, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ams

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,385 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01J (Measurement OF Intensity)

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

ams's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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ams Sensors Germany GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	6.7%
2021	1	6.7%
2022	1	6.7%
2023	2	13.3%
2024	5	33.3%
2025partial year	5	33.3%

Which technologies does ams Sensors Germany GmbH patent most?

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 12

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

Top 8 of 8 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

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ams Sensors Germany GmbH's lead technology class is G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01J
Ranked #18,377 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ams Sensors Germany GmbH against Zhongchao Special Security Technology Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.4/100 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

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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