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Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carl ranks #28,345 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 10 technology areas.

#28,345
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.1/100)
15.0
avg claims per patent
+200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28345 · Foreign Corporation #28,345 · 9 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
  • MID-PACK #28,345/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Cardiosolutions
  • CPC-FOCUS G01N · 10 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 48.1/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-SURGE +200% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cardiosolutions, 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 48.1 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Carl

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

score

What this shows Carl's Innovation Score is 48.1/100 (top 17% 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

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 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 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. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 8.98.999.1 051015202530 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Cardiosolutions, Inc. - 9, 14.33CardiosolutionsCardurion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - 9, 11.89Cardurion Pharmac…Carl Walther GmbH - 9, 17.22Carl WaltherCarl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC - 9, 18.89Carl Zeiss Indust…Carlsberg A/S - 9, 17.67Carlsberg A/SCarrot, Inc. - 9, 27CarrotCasa Systems, Inc. - 9, 20.22Casa SystemsCaseConcept, LLC - 9, 4.33CaseconceptCarl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH - 9, 15Carl Zeiss Spectr…
Carl vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Carl's grants concentrate

Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Carl sits between Cardiosolutions, Inc. and CaseConcept, LLC.

Carl's three-year grant acceleration

Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Who files at Carl's volume?

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

patents

What this shows Carl holds 9 patents at rank #28,428, 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 Carl

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,428 in granted patent volume.

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

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 G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Carl ranks #1,627 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Spogen Biotech, Inc. 48 Oakley, Inc. 48 Domino Printing Sciences PLC 48 Buckingham Manufacturing Company, Inc. 48

Carl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2018 1 11.1%
2019 1 11.1%
2022 3 33.3%
2024 3 33.3%
2025partial year 1 11.1%

Which technologies does Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH patent most?

Top 10 of 10 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 Spectroscopy GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
  • Ranked #28,345 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH against Cardiosolutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 48.1/100 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.