Where does Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG ranks #7,812 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 Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 39.3 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is B04B (Centrifuges) with 23 patents, ranking #6 of 143 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -29% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 11.0 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 Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG 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

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 26 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: B04B (Centrifuges).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Andreas ranks #7,812 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 26 technology areas.

#7,812
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7812 · Foreign Corporation #7,812 · 41 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,812/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adient Engineering…
CPC-FOCUS B04B · 26 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adient Engineering and IP 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 Andreas’s 39.3 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 12.9 pts (33%) Velocity 1.7 pts (4%) Breadth 18.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 6.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Andreas Hettich & KG · this assignee

39
Japan OIL GAS AND… · near

39
Novavax · near

39
Open Text · near

39
Somos · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Andreas's Innovation Score is 39.3/100 (top 38% 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 Andreas?

Each dot is one of Andreas’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). Andreas’s own 11.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Andreas's grants concentrate

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 56.1% of grants classified under B04B (Centrifuges). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Andreas sits between APS Technology, LLC and BMC Medical Co., Ltd..

Andreas's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG moved from 23 to 6 grants (0.26x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

APS Technology

41
Adient Engineerin…

41
Aerostar Internat…

41
Amrita Vishwa Vid…

41
Android Industries

41
Arsenal Medical

41
Blackstone Medical

41
BMC Medical

41
Andreas Hettich &… ◀

41

What this shows Andreas holds 41 patents at rank #7,813, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Andreas

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,813 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B04B (Centrifuges)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Andreas, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B04B (Centrifuges), Andreas ranks #6 of 143 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Somos, Inc. 39 Novavax, Inc. 39 Japan OIL, GAS AND Metals National Corporation 39 Open Text S.A. 39

Andreas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 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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Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	12.2%
2016	6	14.6%
2017	1	2.4%
2019	12	29.3%
2020	7	17.1%
2021	4	9.8%
2022	2	4.9%
2024	4	9.8%

Which technologies does Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

B04B - Centrifuges 23

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 7

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 7

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 7

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 3

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 3

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 1

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 1

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 1

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 1

Top 15 of 26 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

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is B04B (Centrifuges), 56.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B04B
Ranked #7,812 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG against APS Technology, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.3/100 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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