Where does Eckart GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Eckart GmbH ranks #6,888 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 Eckart GmbH hold?

Eckart GmbH holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Eckart GmbH's Innovation Score?

Eckart GmbH has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Eckart GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Eckart GmbH's recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Eckart GmbH's patents?

Eckart GmbH's patents average 24.5 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 Eckart 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

Eckart GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Eckart GmbH focus on?

Eckart GmbH's top technology area is C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers) with 45 patents, ranking #4 of 210 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 20 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: C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Sing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Eckart ranks #6,888 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 20 technology areas.

#6,888
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 24.5
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6888 · Foreign Corporation #6,888 · 48 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,888/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Datalogic ADC
CPC-FOCUS C09C · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Datalogic ADC, 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 Eckart’s 49.6 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 13.4 pts (27%) Velocity 5.6 pts (11%) Breadth 15.8 pts (32%) Claim depth 14.7 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D · near

50
D&M Holdings · near

50
Eckart · this assignee

50
Haver & Boecker OHG · near

50
Nexa3D · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Eckart's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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 Eckart?

Each dot is one of Eckart’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). Eckart’s own 24.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Eckart's grants concentrate

Eckart GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 93.8% of grants classified under C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Sing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2019. By volume, Eckart sits between Deceuninck North America, LLC and Federal Law Enforcement Development Services, Inc..

Eckart's three-year grant acceleration

Eckart GmbH shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Deceuninck North…

48
Dejero Labs

48
Datalogic ADC

48
Dong Guan Pan Ame…

48
Ecopro BM

48
Element SIX Abras…

48
Enzo Biochem

48
Federal Law Enfor…

48
Eckart ◀

48

What this shows Eckart holds 48 patents at rank #6,888, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Eckart

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,888 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Eckart, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials), Eckart ranks #4 of 210 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

D&M Holdings Inc. 50 Nexa3D Inc. 50 Haver & Boecker OHG 50 Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited 50

Eckart's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Eckart GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	14.6%
2016	4	8.3%
2017	8	16.7%
2018	4	8.3%
2019	3	6.3%
2020	4	8.3%
2021	6	12.5%
2022	5	10.4%
2023	3	6.3%
2024	3	6.3%
2025partial year	1	2.1%

Which technologies does Eckart GmbH patent most?

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 45

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 42

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 19

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 19

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 18

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 2

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

C22C - Alloys 1

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

Top 15 of 20 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

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

Eckart GmbH's lead technology class is C09C (Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Sing), 93.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09C
Ranked #6,888 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Eckart GmbH against Deceuninck North America, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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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