Where does Erco GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Erco GMBH ranks #18,595 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 Erco GMBH hold?

Erco GMBH holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Erco GMBH's Innovation Score?

Erco GMBH has an Innovation Score of 27.4 out of 100 (24th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Erco GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Erco GMBH's recent grant velocity is +150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Erco GMBH's patents?

Erco GMBH's patents average 6.7 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 Erco 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

Erco GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Erco GMBH focus on?

Erco GMBH's top technology area is F21W (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems) with 5 patents, ranking #146 of 722 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F21W (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Erco ranks #18,595 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 4 technology areas.

#18,595
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 24th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.4/100): 6.7
avg claims per patent: +150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18595 · Foreign Corporation #18,595 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,595/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Enermax Technology
CPC-NARROW F21W · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Enermax Technology Corporation (±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 Erco’s 27.4 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 9.6 pts (35%) Velocity 6.7 pts (24%) Breadth 7.1 pts (26%) Claim depth 4.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Erco · this assignee

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Erco's Innovation Score is 27.4/100 (24th percentile 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 Erco?

Each dot is one of Erco’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). Erco’s own 6.7 claims/patent is at or below the 14.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Erco's grants concentrate

Erco GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under F21W (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Erco sits between Enermax Technology Corporation and Exascaler Inc..

Erco's three-year grant acceleration

Erco GMBH shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Enermax Technology

15
Enlivex Therapeut…

15
EOS Imaging

15
Erasmus Universit…

15
Essentium Ipco

15
Etxe-tar

15
Eurecat

15
Exascaler

15
Erco ◀

15

What this shows Erco holds 15 patents at rank #18,574, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Erco

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,574 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21W (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k)

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

Erco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 24th percentile higher than 24% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Erco GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	20.0%
2018	1	6.7%
2021	5	33.3%
2022	1	6.7%
2024	4	26.7%
2025partial year	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Erco GMBH patent most?

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 5

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 5

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Erco GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Erco GMBH's lead technology class is F21W (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21W
Ranked #18,595 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Erco GMBH against Enermax Technology Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.4/100 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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