Where does ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh ranks #22,212 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh hold?

ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh's Innovation Score?

ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh has an Innovation Score of 34.1 out of 100 (top 53% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh'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 ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh's patents?

ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh's patents average 13.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh

Q: What technology areas does ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh focus on?

ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh's top technology area is 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) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik 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 PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 15 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: 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 OT).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ASM ranks #22,212 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 15 technology areas.

#22,212
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 53%
by Innovation Score (34.1/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22212 · Foreign Corporation #22,212 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,212/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH ARIES CLEAN
CPC-FOCUS G01D · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aries Clean Technologies Llc (±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
ASM Automation Senso… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows ASM's Innovation Score is 34.1/100 (top 53% 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 ASM's grants concentrate

ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under 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 OT). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, ASM sits between Aries Clean Technologies Llc and ATEC AP Co., Ltd..

Aries Clean

12
Arrowhead Medical…

12
Arteriors HOME

12
Ascendis Pharma G…

12
ASSA Abloy

12
ASTI

12
Astronics Aerosat

12
ATEC AP

12
ASM Automation Se… ◀

12

What this shows ASM holds 12 patents at rank #22,163, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ASM

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,163 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific Variable)

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

ASM's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 Top 53% higher than 47% 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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ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	33.3%
2016	1	8.3%
2017	1	8.3%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	3	25.0%
2023	1	8.3%
2024	1	8.3%

Which technologies does ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik Gmbh patent most?

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 9

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 2

B60R - VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

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

H02G - INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES 1

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 1

F15B - SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

H10N - ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

G01P - MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT 1

G01L - MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE 1

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 1

G01C - MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY 1

G08B - SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS 1

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,212

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

34.1 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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