Where does ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH ranks #2,675 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 ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH hold?

ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH holds 145 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH's Innovation Score?

ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH has an Innovation Score of 52.4 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH's recent grant velocity is +54% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH's patents?

ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH's patents average 18.3 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 ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH 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

ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH

Q: What technology areas does ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH focus on?

ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH's top technology area is 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) with 145 patents, ranking #53 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 145 granted patents across 23 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ECP ranks #2,675 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 145 patents across 23 technology areas.

#2,675
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.4/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2675 · Foreign Corporation #2,675 · 145 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 145 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,675/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abbott Point of Care
CPC-FOCUS A61M · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abbott Point of Care 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 ECP’s 52.4 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 17.2 pts (33%) Velocity 7.2 pts (14%) Breadth 17.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Acxiom · near

52
ECP Entwicklungsgese… · this assignee

52
Freedom Photonics · near

52
Giesecke & Devrient · near

52
Inha University… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ECP's Innovation Score is 52.4/100 (top 10% 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 ECP?

Each dot is one of ECP’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). ECP’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where ECP's grants concentrate

ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (19 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2016. By volume, ECP sits between ScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd. and Medela Holding AG.

ECP's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH moved from 46 to 50 grants (1.09x 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 #984. See the growth leaderboard.

Scienbizip Consul…

146
Abbott Point of C…

145
Analogic

145
Clark Equipment

145
Fluor

145
HL Klemove

145
JSP

145
Medela Holding

145
ECP Entwicklungsg… ◀

145

What this shows ECP holds 145 patents at rank #2,675, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ECP

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,675 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ECP, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), ECP ranks #53 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Giesecke & Devrient GMBH 52 Inha University Research AND Business Foundation 52 Acxiom LLC 52 Freedom Photonics LLC 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. 18.3 avg Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd. 18.3 avg Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. 18.3 avg Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation 18.3 avg

ECP's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	6.9%
2016	8	5.5%
2017	8	5.5%
2018	10	6.9%
2019	16	11.0%
2020	17	11.7%
2021	13	9.0%
2022	13	9.0%
2023	18	12.4%
2024	19	13.1%
2025partial year	13	9.0%

Which technologies does ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH patent most?

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 145

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 78

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 19

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 12

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 9

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 8

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 8

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 8

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 7

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 5

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 5

F04F - Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY Using Inertia OF Fluid TO BE Pumped ; Siphons 5

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 5

B23H - Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal 5

Top 15 of 23 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

ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH's lead technology class is 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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #2,675 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH against ScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.4/100 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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