Where does Delfortgroup AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Delfortgroup AG ranks #12,407 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 Delfortgroup AG hold?

Delfortgroup AG holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Delfortgroup AG's Innovation Score?

Delfortgroup AG has an Innovation Score of 40.9 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Delfortgroup AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Delfortgroup AG's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Delfortgroup AG's patents?

Delfortgroup AG's patents average 25.4 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 Delfortgroup AG 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

Delfortgroup AG

Q: What technology areas does Delfortgroup AG focus on?

Delfortgroup AG's top technology area is D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 18 patents, ranking #22 of 361 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 12 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: D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Delfortgroup ranks #12,407 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 12 technology areas.

#12,407
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (40.9/100): 25.4
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12407 · Foreign Corporation #12,407 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
UPPER-Q #12,407/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cyclerion Therapeutics
CPC-FOCUS D21H · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cyclerion Therapeutics, 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 Delfortgroup’s 40.9 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 11.1 pts (27%) Velocity 2.5 pts (6%) Breadth 12.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (37%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Delfortgroup · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Delfortgroup's Innovation Score is 40.9/100 (top 34% 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 Delfortgroup?

Each dot is one of Delfortgroup’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). Delfortgroup’s own 25.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Delfortgroup's grants concentrate

Delfortgroup AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Delfortgroup sits between Cyclerion Therapeutics, Inc. and Digitalinsights Inc..

Delfortgroup's three-year grant acceleration

Delfortgroup AG shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Cyclerion Therape…

24
Cyral

24
D-link

24
Deka Biosciences

24
Denka Seiken

24
Dentsu

24
Digital Surgery

24
Digitalinsights

24
Delfortgroup ◀

24

What this shows Delfortgroup holds 24 patents at rank #12,403, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Delfortgroup

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,403 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21H (Pulp Compositions)

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

Delfortgroup's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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Delfortgroup AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.3%
2016	6	25.0%
2017	2	8.3%
2018	1	4.2%
2019	6	25.0%
2020	1	4.2%
2021	1	4.2%
2022	1	4.2%
2024	2	8.3%
2025partial year	2	8.3%

Which technologies does Delfortgroup AG patent most?

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 18

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 18

A24C - Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes 6

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 1

A24B - Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff 1

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 1

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

D21G - CALENDERS; Accessories FOR Paper-making Machines 1

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Delfortgroup AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Delfortgroup AG's lead technology class is D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21H
Ranked #12,407 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Delfortgroup AG against Cyclerion Therapeutics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.9/100 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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