Where does ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG ranks #3,077 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 ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG hold?

ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG holds 123 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG's Innovation Score?

ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG has an Innovation Score of 50.6 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG's recent grant velocity is -97% 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 ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG's patents?

ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG's patents average 11.2 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 ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG 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

ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG

Q: What technology areas does ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG focus on?

ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG's top technology area is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume) with 56 patents. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 123 granted patents across 59 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Endress+hauser ranks #3,077 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 123 patents across 59 technology areas.

#3,077
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.6/100): 11.2
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3077 · Foreign Corporation #3,077 · 123 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 123 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,077/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abbott Medical Optics
CPC-WIDE G01F · 59 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abbott Medical Optics 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ENDRESS+HAUSER +KG · this assignee

51
King Slide Technology · near

51
Momenta Pharmaceutic… · near

51
Niigata University · near

51
Societe BIC · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Endress+hauser's Innovation Score is 50.6/100 (top 13% 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.

How Endress+hauser's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG received 3 grants versus 120 in 2015–2019 (-97% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 35 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 1. Lead class G01F accounts for 45.5% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mölnlycke Health Care AB (#3,072) and Festo SE & Co. KG (#3,080).

Endress+hauser's three-year grant acceleration

ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Mölnlycke Health…

124
Oceaneering Inter…

124
Trudell Medical I…

124
Abbott Medical Op…

123
Endochoice

123
Everi Games

123
Futaba Industrial

123
Festo SE & KG

123
Endress+Hauser +KG ◀

123

What this shows ENDRESS+HAUSER holds 123 patents at rank #3,076, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ENDRESS+HAUSER

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,076 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01F (Measuring Volume)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in ENDRESS+HAUSER's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ENDRESS+HAUSER, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Societe BIC 51 King Slide Technology Co., Ltd. 51 Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 51 Niigata University 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.2 here).

National Taipei University of Technology 11.2 avg Guangzhou Shirui Electronics Co., Ltd. 11.2 avg The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University (IAC) 11.2 avg Acer Incorporated 11.2 avg

Endress+hauser's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	26	21.1%
2016	26	21.1%
2017	35	28.5%
2018	32	26.0%
2019	1	0.8%
2020	1	0.8%
2021	1	0.8%
2022	1	0.8%

Which technologies does ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG patent most?

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 56

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 33

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 20

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 13

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

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 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

H04B - Transmission 5

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

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

Top 15 of 59 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,077

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG's lead technology class is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01F
Ranked #3,077 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG against Mölnlycke Health Care AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.6/100 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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