Where does Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH ranks #2,151 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 Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH hold?

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH holds 183 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH's Innovation Score?

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH has an Innovation Score of 57.8 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 Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH's recent grant velocity is +38% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH's patents?

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH's patents average 16.3 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

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH focus on?

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH's top technology area is G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours) with 145 patents, ranking #6 of 2,030 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Carl Zeiss Industrielle 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 - 183 granted patents across 58 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: G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carl ranks #2,151 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 183 patents across 58 technology areas.

#2,151
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.8/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2151 · Foreign Corporation #2,151 · 183 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 183 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,151/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avalanche Technology
CPC-WIDE G01B · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +38% 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.

How Carl’s 57.8 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 18.0 pts (31%) Velocity 5.0 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Carl Zeiss Industrie… · this assignee

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ClearOne · near

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Genzyme · near

58
RIKEN · near

58
Shanghai Dianba NEW… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Carl's Innovation Score is 57.8/100 (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 Carl?

Each dot is one of Carl’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). Carl’s own 16.3 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Carl's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH received 102 grants versus 74 in 2015–2019 (+38% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 32 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 7. Lead class G01B accounts for 79.2% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: SCA Hygiene Products AB (#2,147) and Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. (#2,155).

Carl's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH moved from 74 to 56 grants (0.76x 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 #1,970. See the growth leaderboard.

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Avalanche Technol…

183
Brooks Automation

183
DR Johannes Heide…

183
Danmarks Tekniske…

183
Electro-motive Di…

183
Huawei Cloud Comp…

183
Carl Zeiss Indust… ◀

183

What this shows Carl holds 183 patents at rank #2,151, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carl

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,151 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01B (Measuring Length)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Carl, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01B (Measuring Length), Carl ranks #6 of 2,030 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Genzyme Corporation 58 RIKEN 58 Shanghai Dianba NEW Energy Technology Co., Ltd. 58 ClearOne, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

Mattel, Inc. 16.3 avg Ainsworth Game Technology Limited 16.3 avg Neopost Technologies 16.3 avg Baylor College of Medicine 16.3 avg

Carl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 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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Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	3.8%
2016	7	3.8%
2017	11	6.0%
2018	21	11.5%
2019	28	15.3%
2020	32	17.5%
2021	14	7.7%
2022	22	12.0%
2023	19	10.4%
2024	15	8.2%
2025partial year	7	3.8%

Which technologies does Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH patent most?

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 145

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 36

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 20

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 16

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 15

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 10

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 10

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

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 8

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 8

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 7

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 6

Top 15 of 58 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

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH's lead technology class is G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours), 79.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01B
Ranked #2,151 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH against SCA Hygiene Products AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.8/100 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

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