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Brooks Automation GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 183 granted patents across 47 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brooks ranks #2,150 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 183 patents across 47 technology areas.

#2,150
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.4/100)
21.0
avg claims per patent
-51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2150 · Foreign Corporation #2,150 · 183 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MID 183 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #2,150/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Avalanche Technology
  • CPC-WIDE H01L · 47 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 55.4/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 21.0 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -51% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avalanche Technology, 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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Brooks

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Brooks's Innovation Score is 55.4/100 (top 7% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Where Brooks's grants concentrate

Brooks Automation GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 66.1% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (30 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Brooks sits between Pioneer Square Brands, Inc. and Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc..

Brooks's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Brooks Automation GmbH moved from 80 to 6 grants (0.07x 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 #3,203. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Brooks's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Brooks holds 183 patents at rank #2,150, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Brooks

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,150 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Iscar, Ltd. 55 National Chiao Tung University 55 Commvault Systems, Inc. 55 The Lubrizol Corporation 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.0 here).

Amsted Rail Company, Inc. 21.0 avg Valtech Cardio Ltd. 21.0 avg Iogen Corporation 21.0 avg Hypertherm, Inc. 21.0 avg

Brooks's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Brooks Automation GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 21 11.5%
2016 20 10.9%
2017 26 14.2%
2018 30 16.4%
2019 26 14.2%
2020 30 16.4%
2021 24 13.1%
2022 5 2.7%
2023 1 0.5%

Which technologies does Brooks Automation GmbH patent most?

Top 15 of 47 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,150

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.4 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

Brooks Automation GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Brooks Automation GmbH's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 66.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
  • Ranked #2,150 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Brooks Automation GmbH against Pioneer Square Brands, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 55.4/100 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

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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

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.