Where does emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA ranks #5,070 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 emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA hold?

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA's Innovation Score?

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA has an Innovation Score of 54.0 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA focus on?

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA's top technology area is D06F (Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles) with 34 patents, ranking #14 of 220 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA's recent grant velocity is +70% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA's patents?

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA's patents average 13.6 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 emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA 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

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 39 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: D06F (Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, emz-hanauer ranks #5,070 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 39 technology areas.

#5,070
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.0/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: +70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5070 · Foreign Corporation #5,070 · 68 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,070/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH i4F Licensing
CPC-FOCUS D06F · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: i4F Licensing NV (±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 emz-hanauer’s 54.0 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 14.6 pts (27%) Velocity 9.1 pts (17%) Breadth 22.1 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
A O Smith · near

54
emz-Hanauer & KGaA · this assignee

54
NuFlare Technology · near

54
Creative Technology · near

54
DigiLens · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows emz-hanauer's Innovation Score is 54.0/100 (top 8% 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 emz-hanauer?

Each dot is one of emz-hanauer’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). emz-hanauer’s own 13.6 claims/patent is at or below the 15.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where emz-hanauer's grants concentrate

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under D06F (Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, emz-hanauer sits between Vactronix Scientific, LLC and Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden (H.O.D.N. LUMC) GMBH.

emz-hanauer's three-year grant acceleration

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA shows 26 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Vactronix Scienti…

68
WD Media

68
Woven Planet Nort…

68
Zodiac Aerotechni…

68
i4f Licensing

68
zspace

68
emz-hanauer & Kgaa ◀

68
AAC Optics (Suzho…

67
Academisch Zieken…

67

What this shows emz-Hanauer holds 68 patents at rank #5,130, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near emz-Hanauer

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,130 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D06F (Laundering)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in emz-Hanauer's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for emz-Hanauer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D06F (Laundering), emz-Hanauer ranks #14 of 220 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

A. O. Smith Corporation 54 NuFlare Technology, Inc. 54 DigiLens Inc. 54 Creative Technology Corporation 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.6 here).

Canon Finetech Inc. 13.6 avg UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux 13.6 avg Universite De Montpellier 13.6 avg Bull SAS 13.6 avg

emz-hanauer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	5.9%
2016	2	2.9%
2017	3	4.4%
2018	8	11.8%
2019	6	8.8%
2020	7	10.3%
2021	6	8.8%
2022	6	8.8%
2023	5	7.4%
2024	15	22.1%
2025partial year	6	8.8%

Which technologies does emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA patent most?

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 34

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 24

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 15

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 14

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 12

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 11

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 9

F25C - Producing, Working OR Handling ICE 9

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

Top 15 of 39 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

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA's lead technology class is D06F (Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D06F
Ranked #5,070 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA against Vactronix Scientific, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.0/100 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

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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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