Where does Basf Coatings GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Basf Coatings GMBH ranks #1,572 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 Basf Coatings GMBH hold?

Basf Coatings GMBH holds 263 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 74 technology areas.

What is Basf Coatings GMBH's Innovation Score?

Basf Coatings GMBH has an Innovation Score of 57.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Basf Coatings GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Basf Coatings GMBH's recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Basf Coatings GMBH's patents?

Basf Coatings GMBH's patents average 15.2 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 Basf Coatings 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

Basf Coatings GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Basf Coatings GMBH focus on?

Basf Coatings GMBH's top technology area is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor) with 209 patents, ranking #13 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 74 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 263 granted patents across 74 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: C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Basf ranks #1,572 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 263 patents across 74 technology areas.

#1,572
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.2/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1572 · Foreign Corporation #1,572 · 263 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 263 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,572/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Conmed
CPC-WIDE C09D · 74 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Conmed Corporation (±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 Basf’s 57.2 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 19.3 pts (34%) Velocity 3.8 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Inter Ikea Systems B V · near

57
Basf Coatings · this assignee

57
Indian Oil · near

57
Mettler-Toledo… · near

57
Pall · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Basf's Innovation Score is 57.2/100 (top 5% 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 Basf?

Each dot is one of Basf’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). Basf’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Basf's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Basf Coatings GMBH received 93 grants versus 147 in 2015–2019 (-37% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 45 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 11. Lead class C09D accounts for 79.5% of the portfolio across 74 subclasses. Volume neighbours: AI Incorporated (#1,568) and Canon U.S.A., Inc. (#1,576).

Basf's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Basf Coatings GMBH moved from 88 to 50 grants (0.57x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,531. See the growth leaderboard.

AI Incorporated

264
Alpine

264
Inspur Suzhou Int…

264
Witricity

264
Conmed

263
Mitsuba

263
Basf Coatings ◀

263
Autel Robotics

262
Canon U

262

What this shows Basf holds 263 patents at rank #1,572, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Basf

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,572 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Basf, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Basf ranks #13 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Indian Oil Corporation Limited 57 Pall Corporation 57 Mettler-Toledo (Changzhou) Measurement Technology Ltd. 57 Inter Ikea Systems B.V. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. 15.2 avg Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd. 15.2 avg Perkins Engines Company Limited 15.2 avg SK Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. 15.2 avg

Basf's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Basf Coatings GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	7.2%
2016	31	11.8%
2017	23	8.7%
2018	29	11.0%
2019	45	17.1%
2020	22	8.4%
2021	21	8.0%
2022	12	4.6%
2023	11	4.2%
2024	27	10.3%
2025partial year	23	8.7%

Which technologies does Basf Coatings GMBH patent most?

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 209

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 140

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 111

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 58

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 55

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 41

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 34

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 18

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 15

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 15

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 13

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 12

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

Top 15 of 74 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

Basf Coatings GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Basf Coatings GMBH's lead technology class is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi), 79.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #1,572 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Basf Coatings GMBH against AI Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.2/100 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

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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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