Where does Bruker AXS GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bruker AXS GmbH ranks #28,301 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 Bruker AXS GmbH hold?

Bruker AXS GmbH holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Bruker AXS GmbH's Innovation Score?

Bruker AXS GmbH has an Innovation Score of 34.8 out of 100 (49th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bruker AXS GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bruker AXS GmbH's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 Bruker AXS GmbH's patents?

Bruker AXS GmbH's patents average 14.1 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 Bruker AXS 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

Bruker AXS GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Bruker AXS GmbH focus on?

Bruker AXS GmbH's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 11 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bruker ranks #28,301 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 11 technology areas.

#28,301
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.8/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28301 · Foreign Corporation #28,301 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,301/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brink's Network…
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brink's Network, Incorporated (±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
Bruker AXS · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bruker's Innovation Score is 34.8/100 (49th percentile 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 Bruker's grants concentrate

Bruker AXS GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Bruker sits between Brink's Network, Incorporated and Bulletproof Property Management, LLC.

Bruker's three-year grant acceleration

Bruker AXS GmbH shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Brink's Network I…

9
British SKY Broad…

9
Brokk Aktiebolag

9
Brose Fahrzeugtei…

9
BSI Business Syst…

9
BT

9
Buddhist TZU CHI…

9
Bulletproof Prope…

9
Bruker AXS ◀

9

What this shows Bruker holds 9 patents at rank #28,242, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bruker

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,242 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Bruker's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% 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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Bruker AXS GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	33.3%
2017	1	11.1%
2018	4	44.4%
2024	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Bruker AXS GmbH patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 1

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 1

G16C - Computational CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; Computational Materials Science 1

H05G - X-ray Technique 1

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#28,301

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

34.8 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

Bruker AXS GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bruker AXS GmbH's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #28,301 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bruker AXS GmbH against Brink's Network, Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.8/100 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.