Where does ETH Zuerich rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ETH Zuerich ranks #22,545 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 Zuerich hold?

ETH Zuerich holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is ETH Zuerich's Innovation Score?

ETH Zuerich has an Innovation Score of 40.8 out of 100 (top 35% 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 Zuerich focus on?

ETH Zuerich's top technology area is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds) with 4 patents, ranking #456 of 1,231 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

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

ETH Zuerich's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 ETH Zuerich's patents?

ETH Zuerich's patents average 10.8 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 Zuerich 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 Zuerich

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 19 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: C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ETH ranks #22,545 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 19 technology areas.

#22,545
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.8/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22545 · Foreign Corporation #22,545 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,545/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Eshard
CPC-FOCUS C08F · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Eshard (±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 40.8 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 8.9 pts (22%) Velocity 10.0 pts (25%) Breadth 15.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 6.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ETH Zuerich · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows ETH's Innovation Score is 40.8/100 (top 35% 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 10.8 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 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.

Where ETH's grants concentrate

ETH Zuerich is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, ETH sits between Eshard and Excellence Opto. Inc..

ETH's three-year grant acceleration

ETH Zuerich shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Eshard

12
Eski

12
Ess-help

12
Esthetic Implant…

12
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12
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Exalos

12
Excellence Opto

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ETH Zuerich ◀

12

What this shows ETH holds 12 patents at rank #22,510, 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 #22,510 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…)

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

ETH's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% 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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ETH Zuerich patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	1	8.3%
2017	2	16.7%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2024	3	25.0%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does ETH Zuerich patent most?

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 4

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 2

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 2

B01D - Separation 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 15 of 19 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

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

ETH Zuerich's lead technology class is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08F
Ranked #22,545 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ETH Zuerich against Eshard, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.8/100 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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