Where does Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh ranks #21,091 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh hold?

Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh's Innovation Score?

Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh has an Innovation Score of 41.6 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh's recent grant velocity is +17% 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 Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh's patents?

Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh's patents average 19.8 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 Entex Rust & Mitschke 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

Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh

Q: What technology areas does Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh focus on?

Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh's top technology area is 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) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 11 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Entex ranks #21,091 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 11 technology areas.

#21,091
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.6/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21091 · Foreign Corporation #21,091 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,091/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Enedym
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Enedym 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
Entex Rust & Mitschke · this assignee

42
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Entex's Innovation Score is 41.6/100 (top 33% 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.

Where Entex's grants concentrate

Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Entex sits between Enedym Inc and Epic Metals Corporation.

Enedym

13
Enerlites

13
Enhanced Drilling…

13
Ensinger

13
Eolas

13
Ephesus Lighting

13
Epic Games

13
Epic Metals

13
Entex Rust & Mits… ◀

13

What this shows Entex holds 13 patents at rank #21,102, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Entex

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,102 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Entex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% of 50,000 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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Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2018	4	30.8%
2020	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	3	23.1%
2023	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh patent most?

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 13

B29B - PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BE SHAPED; MAKING GRANULES OR PREFORMS; RECOVERY OF PLASTICS OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF WASTE MATERIAL CONTAINING PLASTICS 12

B29K - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES B29B, B29C OR B29D, RELATING TO MOULDING MATERIALS OR TO MATERIALS FOR ; MOULDS, ; REINFORCEMENTS, FILLERS OR PREFORMED PARTS, e.g. INSERTS 5

C08J - WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H 4

Y02W - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT 3

B01F - MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING 3

B27N - MANUFACTURE BY DRY PROCESSES OF ARTICLES, WITH OR WITHOUT ORGANIC BINDING AGENTS, MADE FROM PARTICLES OR FIBRES CONSISTING OF WOOD OR OTHER LIGNOCELLULOSIC OR LIKE ORGANIC MATERIAL 1

A23P - SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS 1

C09D - COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR 1

B60N - SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

B60R - VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,091

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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