Where does Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH ranks #2,325 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 Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH hold?

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH holds 168 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH's Innovation Score?

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH focus on?

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 154 patents. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH's patents?

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH's patents average 13.3 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 Erbe Elektromedizin 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

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 168 granted patents across 33 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Erbe ranks #2,325 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 168 patents across 33 technology areas.

#2,325
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2325 · Foreign Corporation #2,325 · 168 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 168 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,325/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FOR Imaging
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Electronics FOR Imaging, 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
Crrc Tangshan · near

52
Erbe Elektromedizin · this assignee

52
Pentair Flow · near

52
Yanmar Holdings · near

52
Dayco IP Holdings · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Erbe's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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 Erbe's grants concentrate

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (32 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2022. By volume, Erbe sits between Shanghai Avic Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Ventures II LLC.

Erbe's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH moved from 40 to 38 grants (0.95x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,317. See the growth leaderboard.

Shanghai Avic Opt…

169
Sunbeam Products

169
THE Children's Ho…

169
FOR Imaging

168
Extreme Networks

168
General Electric…

168
Ingersoll-rand In…

168
Intellectual Vent…

168
Erbe Elektromediz… ◀

168

What this shows Erbe holds 168 patents at rank #2,325, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Erbe

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,325 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. 52 Pentair Flow Technologies, LLC 52 Crrc Tangshan Co., Ltd. 52 Dayco IP Holdings, LLC 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

China Unionpay Co., Ltd. 13.3 avg Element Six Limited 13.3 avg Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation 13.3 avg Teijin Pharma Limited 13.3 avg

Erbe's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	32	19.0%
2016	18	10.7%
2017	16	9.5%
2018	13	7.7%
2019	13	7.7%
2020	18	10.7%
2021	9	5.4%
2022	7	4.2%
2023	18	10.7%
2024	13	7.7%
2025partial year	11	6.5%

Which technologies does Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 154

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 19

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 5

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 5

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 5

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 4

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 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 3

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 2

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 2

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

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 2

Top 15 of 33 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,325

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.3 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

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 91.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #2,325 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH against Shanghai Avic Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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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