Where does ETH ZËRICH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ETH ZËRICH ranks #6,433 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 ETH ZËRICH hold?

ETH ZËRICH holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 75 technology areas.

What is ETH ZËRICH's Innovation Score?

ETH ZËRICH has an Innovation Score of 53.7 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 ETH ZËRICH focus on?

ETH ZËRICH's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 13 patents, ranking #1,156 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 75 CPC subclasses total.

Is ETH ZËRICH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ETH ZËRICH's recent grant velocity is +14% 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 ETH ZËRICH's patents?

ETH ZËRICH's patents average 18.0 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 ETH ZËRICH 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

ETH ZËRICH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 75 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ETH ranks #6,433 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 75 technology areas.

#6,433
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.7/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: +14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6433 · Foreign Corporation #6,433 · 52 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,433/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dalphi Metal Espana
CPC-WIDE G01N · 75 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. (±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 ETH’s 53.7 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 13.7 pts (26%) Velocity 4.2 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Novomer · near

54
ETH ZËRICH · this assignee

54
Ishida · near

54
Mentor Graphics · near

54
Saudi Basic Industries · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ETH's Innovation Score is 53.7/100 (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 ETH?

Each dot is one of ETH’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). ETH’s own 18.0 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How ETH's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ETH ZËRICH received 25 grants versus 22 in 2015–2019 (+14% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 8 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 2. Lead class G01N accounts for 25% of the portfolio across 75 subclasses. Volume neighbours: DUO Security, Inc. (#6,427) and FormFactor, Inc. (#6,435).

ETH's three-year grant acceleration

ETH ZËRICH shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

DUO Security

52
Dalphi Metal Espa…

52
Darktrace Holdings

52
Direct Pack

52
Empower Semicondu…

52
Equistar Chemicals

52
Federated Wireless

52
Formfactor

52
ETH ZËRICH ◀

52

What this shows ETH holds 52 patents at rank #6,431, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ETH

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,431 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ETH, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), ETH ranks #1,156 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Ishida Co., Ltd. 54 Saudi Basic Industries Corporation 54 Mentor Graphics Corporation 54 Novomer, Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Adama Makhteshim Ltd. 18.0 avg Distech Controls Inc. 18.0 avg Storagecraft Technology Corporation 18.0 avg CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH 18.0 avg

ETH's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

ETH ZËRICH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	7.7%
2016	4	7.7%
2017	2	3.8%
2018	6	11.5%
2019	6	11.5%
2020	8	15.4%
2021	5	9.6%
2022	4	7.7%
2023	4	7.7%
2024	4	7.7%
2025partial year	5	9.6%

Which technologies does ETH ZËRICH patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 13

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 5

G16C - Computational CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; Computational Materials Science 5

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 4

H05G - X-ray Technique 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 3

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

C07K - Peptides 3

Top 15 of 75 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

ETH ZËRICH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ETH ZËRICH's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 25% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #6,433 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ETH ZËRICH against DUO Security, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.7/100 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.