Where does Erber Ag rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Erber Ag ranks #13,975 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 Erber Ag hold?

Erber Ag holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Erber Ag's Innovation Score?

Erber Ag has an Innovation Score of 38.0 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Erber Ag focus on?

Erber Ag's top technology area is A23K (FODDER) with 15 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Erber Ag's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Erber Ag's recent grant velocity is +325% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Erber Ag's patents?

Erber Ag's patents average 8.7 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 Erber Ag 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

Erber Ag

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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: A23K (FODDER).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Erber ranks #13,975 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 19 technology areas.

#13,975
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.0/100): 8.7
avg claims per patent: +325%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13975 · Foreign Corporation #13,975 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #13,975/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Enable Injections
CPC-FOCUS A23K · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +325% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Enable Injections, 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
Erber · this assignee

38
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Erber Ag stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #13,975 of 50,000; Innovation Score 38.0/100 sits in the top 42% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Enable Injections, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Erber Ag has been granted 21 US utility patents between 2017 and 2024, placing Erber Ag at #13,975 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 19 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 8.7 claims per patent with primary concentration in A23K (FODDER). As a Foreign Corporation, Erber Ag is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Erber sits between Enpower, Inc. (21 patents, rank #13,972) and Excelitas Canada, Inc. (21 patents, rank #13,980) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 38.0/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 17 grants, compared with 4 in the 2015–2019 window, a +325% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Erber Ag's 8.7 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 19 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Enpower

21
Enable Injections

21
Energy Full

21
Epivax

21
Etagen

21
Evonik Oxeno & KG

21
Exabeam

21
Excelitas Canada

21
Erber ◀

21

What this shows Erber holds 21 patents at rank #13,976, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Erber

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,976 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23K (Fodder)

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

Erber's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Erber Ag patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	4.8%
2018	2	9.5%
2019	1	4.8%
2020	3	14.3%
2021	5	23.8%
2022	1	4.8%
2023	4	19.0%
2024	4	19.0%

Which technologies does Erber Ag patent most?

A23K - FODDER 15

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 12

C12Y - ENZYMES 10

A23V - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LACTIC OR PROPIONIC ACID BACTERIA USED IN FOODSTUFFS OR FOOD PREPARATION 8

A23B - PRESERVATION OF FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES 7

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 7

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 5

C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE 3

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 2

A23L - FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PREPARATION OR TREATMENT THEREOF 2

B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS 1

A61Q - SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS 1

C07K - PEPTIDES 1

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 1

B05C - APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,975

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

38.0 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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