Where does Dionex Softron GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dionex Softron GmbH ranks #5,204 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 Dionex Softron GmbH hold?

Dionex Softron GmbH holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Dionex Softron GmbH's Innovation Score?

Dionex Softron GmbH has an Innovation Score of 47.7 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dionex Softron GmbH focus on?

Dionex Softron GmbH's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 63 patents, ranking #231 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dionex Softron GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dionex Softron GmbH's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Dionex Softron GmbH's patents?

Dionex Softron GmbH's patents average 18.4 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 Dionex Softron 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Dionex Softron GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 22 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dionex ranks #5,204 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 22 technology areas.

#5,204
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.7/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5204 · Foreign Corporation #5,204 · 66 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,204/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bridgeport Fittings
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bridgeport Fittings, LLC (±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 Dionex’s 47.7 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 14.5 pts (30%) Velocity 5.6 pts (12%) Breadth 16.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Berlin Heart · near

48
Corning Optical… · near

48
Dionex Softron · this assignee

48
Distech Controls · near

48
Unilumin Group · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dionex's Innovation Score is 47.7/100 (top 18% 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 Dionex?

Each dot is one of Dionex’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). Dionex’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dionex's grants concentrate

Dionex Softron GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 95.5% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Dionex sits between Bridgeport Fittings, LLC and Hebei Wanda Tyre Co., Ltd..

Dionex's three-year grant acceleration

Dionex Softron GmbH shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Bridgeport Fittin…

66
Central Japan Rai…

66
CSL

66
Canon U S Life Sc…

66
Ecole Polytechniq…

66
Flir Belgium Bvba

66
Hamilton Bonaduz

66
Hebei Wanda Tyre

66
Dionex Softron ◀

66

What this shows Dionex holds 66 patents at rank #5,204, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dionex

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,204 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dionex, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Dionex ranks #231 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Berlin Heart GmbH 48 Distech Controls Inc. 48 Corning Optical Communications Wireless Ltd 48 Unilumin Group Co., Ltd 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Aurora Operations, Inc. 18.4 avg Yeda Research AND Development Co. Ltd. 18.4 avg Lyft, Inc. 18.4 avg First Orion Corp. 18.4 avg

Dionex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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Dionex Softron GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	7.6%
2016	6	9.1%
2017	5	7.6%
2018	11	16.7%
2019	4	6.1%
2020	8	12.1%
2021	7	10.6%
2022	3	4.5%
2023	8	12.1%
2024	5	7.6%
2025partial year	4	6.1%

Which technologies does Dionex Softron GmbH patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 63

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 12

B01D - Separation 11

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 7

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 3

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 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

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 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

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Dionex Softron GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dionex Softron GmbH's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 95.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #5,204 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dionex Softron GmbH against Bridgeport Fittings, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.7/100 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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