Where does Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt ranks #11,638 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt's recent grant velocity is +9% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt's patents?

Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt's patents average 14.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt

Q: How many patents does Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt hold?

Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

Q: What is Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt's Innovation Score?

Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Q: How is the Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt 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 PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 41 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Empa ranks #11,638 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 41 technology areas.

#11,638
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: +9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11638 · Foreign Corporation #11,638 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,638/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Echo Incorporated
CPC-WIDE G01N · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +9% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Echo Incorporated (±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 Empa’s 46.9 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 11.4 pts (24%) Velocity 4.4 pts (9%) Breadth 22.6 pts (48%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Build a Rocket Boy… · near

47
Empa Eidgenössische… · this assignee

47
Hint · near

47
London Health… · near

47
TRW · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Empa's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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 Empa?

Each dot is one of Empa’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). Empa’s own 14.1 claims/patent is at or below the 14.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Empa's grants concentrate

Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 26.9% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Empa sits between Ejot GmbH & Co. KG and Emhart Glass S.A..

Empa's three-year grant acceleration

Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Ejot & KG

26
Elbex Video

26
Elementis Special…

26
Emed Labs

26
Evolutive Labs

26
Echo Incorporated

26
Elopak AS

26
Emhart Glass

26
Empa Eidgenössisc… ◀

26

What this shows Empa holds 26 patents at rank #11,635, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Empa

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,635 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Empa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Empa ranks #2,018 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

London Health Sciences Centre Research Inc. 47 Hint, Inc. 47 TRW Limited 47 Build a Rocket Boy Games Ltd. 47

Empa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	7.7%
2017	3	11.5%
2018	3	11.5%
2019	3	11.5%
2020	3	11.5%
2021	3	11.5%
2022	2	7.7%
2024	4	15.4%
2025partial year	3	11.5%

Which technologies does Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 3

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 3

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 3

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 3

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 3

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 2

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 2

Top 15 of 41 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

Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 26.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #11,638 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs-und Forschungsanstalt against Ejot GmbH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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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