Where does Anton Paar GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Anton Paar GmbH ranks #7,110 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 Anton Paar GmbH hold?

Anton Paar GmbH holds 46 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Anton Paar GmbH's Innovation Score?

Anton Paar GmbH has an Innovation Score of 44.4 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Anton Paar GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Anton Paar GmbH's recent grant velocity is -31% 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 Anton Paar GmbH's patents?

Anton Paar GmbH's patents average 16.6 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 Anton Paar 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

Anton Paar GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Anton Paar GmbH focus on?

Anton Paar GmbH's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 36 patents. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 46 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Anton ranks #7,110 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 46 patents across 18 technology areas.

#7,110
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.4/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7110 · Foreign Corporation #7,110 · 46 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 46 grants
UPPER-Q #7,110/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aerie Pharmaceuticals
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aerie Pharmaceuticals, 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
Anton Paar · this assignee

44
Ember · near

44
Kelsey-hayes- · near

44
Tendyron · near

44
UPI Semiconductor · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Anton's Innovation Score is 44.4/100 (top 26% 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 Anton's grants concentrate

Anton Paar GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 78.3% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Anton sits between Applied Invention, LLC and Avive Solutions, Inc..

Anton's three-year grant acceleration

Anton Paar GmbH shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Applied Invention

46
Ariel Scientific…

46
Atonarp

46
Aerie Pharmaceuti…

46
Araxes Pharma

46
Artisan Vehicle S…

46
Auspex Pharmaceut…

46
Avive Solutions

46
Anton Paar ◀

46

What this shows Anton holds 46 patents at rank #7,114, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Anton

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,114 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Anton, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Kelsey-hayes-company 44 Tendyron Corporation 44 Ember Technologies, Inc. 44 UPI Semiconductor Corp. 44

Anton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Anton Paar GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.3%
2016	6	13.0%
2017	6	13.0%
2018	5	10.9%
2019	7	15.2%
2020	1	2.2%
2021	5	10.9%
2022	3	6.5%
2023	5	10.9%
2024	4	8.7%
2025partial year	2	4.3%

Which technologies does Anton Paar GmbH patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 36

G01Q - Scanning-probe Techniques OR APPARATUS; Applications OF Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g. Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

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 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,110

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Anton Paar GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Anton Paar GmbH's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 78.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #7,110 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Anton Paar GmbH against Applied Invention, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.