Where does Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH ranks #21,056 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 Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH hold?

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH's Innovation Score?

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH has an Innovation Score of 33.7 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH focus on?

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH's top technology area is B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing) with 13 patents, ranking #57 of 1,218 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH's patents?

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH's patents average 16.7 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 Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik 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

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 9 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: B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ekato ranks #21,056 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 9 technology areas.

#21,056
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.7/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21056 · Foreign Corporation #21,056 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,056/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Edifire
CPC-NARROW B01F · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Edifire 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 Ekato’s 33.7 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 9.1 pts (27%) Velocity 4.0 pts (12%) Breadth 10.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Innovelis · near

34
Scope Holdings · near

34
Wegmann automotive · near

34
Demerx · near

34
Ekato Rühr-und… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ekato's Innovation Score is 33.7/100 (45th 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 Ekato?

Each dot is one of Ekato’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). Ekato’s own 16.7 claims/patent is at or below the 20.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ekato's grants concentrate

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Ekato sits between Edifire LLC and Electronic Biosciences, Inc..

Ekato's three-year grant acceleration

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

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Electric Power Re…

13
Biosciences

13
Ekato Rühr-und Mi… ◀

13

What this shows Ekato holds 13 patents at rank #21,050, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ekato

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,050 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01F (Mixing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ekato, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01F (Mixing), Ekato ranks #57 of 1,218 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Demerx, Inc. 34 Scope Technologies Holdings Limited 34 Wegmann automotive GmbH 34 Innovelis, Inc. 34

Ekato's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% 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.

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Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	23.1%
2018	2	15.4%
2019	2	15.4%
2020	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	2	15.4%
2023	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH patent most?

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 13

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 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH's lead technology class is B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01F
Ranked #21,056 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ekato Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH against Edifire LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.7/100 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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