Where does Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA ranks #28,556 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 Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA hold?

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA's Innovation Score?

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA's recent grant velocity is +33% 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 Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA's patents?

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA's patents average 19.4 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 Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA 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

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA

Q: What technology areas does Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA focus on?

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA's top technology area is C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives) with 8 patents, ranking #115 of 837 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 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: C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Delo ranks #28,556 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 13 technology areas.

#28,556
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28556 · Foreign Corporation #28,556 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,556/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH De-sta- Europe
CPC-FOCUS C09J · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: De-sta-co Europe GmbH (±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 Delo’s 42.4 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 8.0 pts (19%) Velocity 10.0 pts (24%) Breadth 12.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Delo Industrie… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Delo's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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 Delo?

Each dot is one of Delo’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). Delo’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Delo's grants concentrate

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Delo sits between De-sta-co Europe GmbH and Denso IT Laboratory, Inc..

Delo's three-year grant acceleration

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

De-sta- Europe

9
Deckel Maho Seeba…

9
Deep BIO

9
Delk

9
Delta Scientific

9
Deltawing Technol…

9
Denso Daishin

9
Denso IT Laborato…

9
Delo Industrie Kl… ◀

9

What this shows Delo holds 9 patents at rank #28,534, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Delo

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,534 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09J (Adhesives)

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

Delo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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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Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	22.2%
2019	1	11.1%
2021	1	11.1%
2022	1	11.1%
2023	1	11.1%
2024	1	11.1%
2025partial year	2	22.2%

Which technologies does Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA patent most?

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 8

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 7

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 6

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 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

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

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 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

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA's lead technology class is C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09J
Ranked #28,556 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA against De-sta-co Europe GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.4/100 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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