Where does Eppendorf SE rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Eppendorf SE ranks #9,496 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 Eppendorf SE hold?

Eppendorf SE holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Eppendorf SE's Innovation Score?

Eppendorf SE has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Eppendorf SE focus on?

Eppendorf SE's top technology area is B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE) with 11 patents, ranking #169 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Eppendorf SE's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Eppendorf SE.

What does claim depth mean for Eppendorf SE's patents?

Eppendorf SE's patents average 9.1 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.

How is the Eppendorf SE 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

Eppendorf SE

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Eppendorf ranks #9,496 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 20 technology areas.

#9,496
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 9.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9496 · Foreign Corporation #9,496 · 33 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,496/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Eddy Current…
CPC-FOCUS B01L · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Eddy Current Limited Partnership (±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 Eppendorf’s 53.5 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 12.2 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 15.8 pts (30%) Claim depth 5.5 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Citizen Watch · near

53
Eppendorf SE · this assignee

53
Flooring · near

53
Independence… · near

53
Blaize · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Eppendorf's Innovation Score is 53.5/100 (top 9% 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 Eppendorf?

Each dot is one of Eppendorf’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). Eppendorf’s own 9.1 claims/patent is at or below the 20.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Eppendorf's grants concentrate

Eppendorf SE is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Eppendorf sits between Eddy Current Limited Partnership and Ethox Chemicals, LLC.

Eppendorf's three-year grant acceleration

Eppendorf SE shows 19 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Eddy Current Part…

33
Electric Mirror

33
Emerson Process M…

33
Epica Internation…

33
Esteve Pharmaceut…

33
Edico Genome

33
Eidgenössische Te…

33
Ethox Chemicals

33
Eppendorf SE ◀

33

What this shows Eppendorf holds 33 patents at rank #9,494, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Eppendorf

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,494 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Eppendorf, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE), Eppendorf ranks #169 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Flooring Technologies Ltd. 53 Independence Materials Group, LLC 53 Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. 53 Blaize, Inc. 53

Eppendorf's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Eppendorf SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	3	9.1%
2023	4	12.1%
2024	12	36.4%
2025partial year	14	42.4%

Which technologies does Eppendorf SE patent most?

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 11

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 1

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 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Eppendorf SE's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Eppendorf SE's lead technology class is B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01L
Ranked #9,496 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Eppendorf SE against Eddy Current Limited Partnership, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.