Where does Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. ranks #14,525 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 Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. hold?

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.'s Innovation Score?

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. focus on?

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.'s top technology area is B23C (Milling) with 10 patents, ranking #24 of 227 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.'s recent grant velocity is -42% 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 Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.'s patents?

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.'s patents average 12.0 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 Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. 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

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 13 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: B23C (Milling).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ceratizit ranks #14,525 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 13 technology areas.

#14,525
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 12.0
avg claims per patent: -42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14525 · Foreign Corporation #14,525 · 20 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,525/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carefree/Scott Fetzer
CPC-FOCUS B23C · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company (±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 Ceratizit’s 34.3 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 10.5 pts (31%) Velocity 3.8 pts (11%) Breadth 12.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ceratizit Austria… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ceratizit's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (47th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Ceratizit?

Each dot is one of Ceratizit’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). Ceratizit’s own 12.0 claims/patent is at or below the 12.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ceratizit's grants concentrate

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under B23C (Milling). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ceratizit sits between Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company and Clear Cove Systems, Inc.

Ceratizit's three-year grant acceleration

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Carefree/Scott Fe…

20
Carrier Japan

20
Cathrx

20
Centre Hospitalie…

20
Chemistry Design…

20
China Petrochemic…

20
Clean Chemistry

20
Clear Cove Systems

20
Ceratizit Austria… ◀

20

What this shows Ceratizit holds 20 patents at rank #14,540, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ceratizit

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,540 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23C (Milling)

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

Ceratizit's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% 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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Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.0%
2016	1	5.0%
2017	3	15.0%
2018	3	15.0%
2019	4	20.0%
2021	3	15.0%
2022	1	5.0%
2023	3	15.0%
2025partial year	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. patent most?

B23C - Milling 10

B23B - TURNING; Boring 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 2

C22C - Alloys 2

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 2

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 1

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B30B - Presses IN General 1

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 1

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 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.'s lead technology class is B23C (Milling), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23C
Ranked #14,525 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H. against Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.3/100 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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