Where does Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH ranks #11,994 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 Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH hold?

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH's Innovation Score?

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH's patents?

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH's patents average 15.3 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 Dystar Colours Distribution 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

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH focus on?

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH's top technology area is C09B (Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes) with 22 patents, ranking #12 of 276 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: C09B (Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dystar ranks #11,994 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 6 technology areas.

#11,994
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11994 · Foreign Corporation #11,994 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,994/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DataRobot
CPC-NARROW C09B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DataRobot, 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 Dystar’s 32.0 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 11.3 pts (35%) Velocity 2.9 pts (9%) Breadth 8.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dystar Colours… · this assignee

32
Gloriole Electroptic… · near

32
Intralot —Integrated… · near

32
Kingpak Technology · near

32
Varcode · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dystar's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th 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 Dystar?

Each dot is one of Dystar’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). Dystar’s own 15.3 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.

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

Where Dystar's grants concentrate

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 88% of grants classified under C09B (Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Dystar sits between DEB IP Limited and Dejana Truck and Utility Equipment Co., Inc..

Dystar's three-year grant acceleration

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH shows 3 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.

DEB IP

25
Deep Render

25
Dong-a University…

25
DY Auto

25
Datarobot

25
De Beers UK

25
Deep Isolation

25
Dejana Truck and…

25
Dystar Colours Di… ◀

25

What this shows Dystar holds 25 patents at rank #11,988, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dystar

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,988 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09B (Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dystar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09B (Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes), Dystar ranks #12 of 276 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Kingpak Technology Inc. 32 Intralot S.A.—Integrated Lottery Systems and Services 32 Gloriole Electroptic Technology Corp. 32 Varcode Ltd. 32

Dystar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	20.0%
2016	2	8.0%
2017	7	28.0%
2018	1	4.0%
2019	5	20.0%
2020	2	8.0%
2022	2	8.0%
2023	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH patent most?

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 22

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 21

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 12

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 4

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH's lead technology class is C09B (Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes), 88% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09B
Ranked #11,994 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dystar Colours Distribution GMBH against DEB IP Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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

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