Where does Discma AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Discma AG ranks #2,960 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 Discma AG hold?

Discma AG holds 128 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Discma AG's Innovation Score?

Discma AG has an Innovation Score of 41.4 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Discma AG's recent grant velocity is -51% 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 Discma AG's patents?

Discma AG's patents average 15.5 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 Discma 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

Discma AG

Q: What technology areas does Discma AG focus on?

Discma AG's top technology area is 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) with 126 patents. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 128 granted patents across 15 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Discma ranks #2,960 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 128 patents across 15 technology areas.

#2,960
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.4/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2960 · Foreign Corporation #2,960 · 128 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 128 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,960/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Akzo Nobel Coatings…
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akhan Semiconductor · near

41
Discma · this assignee

41
Flexiworld · near

41
Sumitomo Heavy… · near

41
Universitaet Zuerich · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Discma's Innovation Score is 41.4/100 (top 33% 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.

Where Discma's grants concentrate

Discma AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 98.4% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (30 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Discma sits between Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. and GAS Technology Institute.

Discma's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Discma AG moved from 57 to 14 grants (0.25x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,043. See the growth leaderboard.

Akzo Nobel Coatin…

128
Automotive Resear…

128
Beijing Kuaimajia…

128
Cytec Industries

128
Ericsson AB

128
Electrocore

128
Evolution Enginee…

128
GAS Technology In…

128
Discma ◀

128

What this shows Discma holds 128 patents at rank #2,960, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Discma

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,960 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Discma, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Sumitomo Heavy Industries ION Technology Co., Ltd. 41 Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. 41 Universitaet Zuerich 41 Akhan Semiconductor, Inc. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

Pierre Fabre MÉDICAMENT 15.5 avg THE Chemours Company FC, LLC 15.5 avg Osram Oled GMBH 15.5 avg HeartWare, Inc. 15.5 avg

Discma's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Discma AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	5.5%
2016	8	6.3%
2017	21	16.4%
2018	17	13.3%
2019	30	23.4%
2020	17	13.3%
2021	10	7.8%
2022	6	4.7%
2023	5	3.9%
2024	3	2.3%
2025partial year	4	3.1%

Which technologies does Discma AG patent most?

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 126

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 92

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 68

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 40

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 14

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 12

B67C - Cleaning, Filling With Liquids OR Semiliquids, OR Emptying, OF Bottles, Jars, Cans, Casks, Barrels, OR Similar Containers, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Funnels 9

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,960

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Discma AG's lead technology class is 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), 98.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #2,960 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Discma AG against Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.4/100 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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