Where does ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) ranks #3,532 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH)'s recent grant velocity is -11% 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 ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH)'s patents?

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH)'s patents average 20.4 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH)

Q: How many patents does ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) hold?

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) holds 104 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

Q: What is ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH)'s Innovation Score?

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) has an Innovation Score of 53.3 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%).

Q: What technology areas does ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) focus on?

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH)'s top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 81 patents. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) 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 PatentsView assignee record - 104 granted patents across 26 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ETH ranks #3,532 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 104 patents across 26 technology areas.

#3,532
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.3/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3532 · Foreign Corporation #3,532 · 104 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 104 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,532/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Core Wireless…
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. (±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
National University… · near

53
ThyssenKrupp Steel… · near

53
Vale · near

53
ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖS… · this assignee

53
Vibracoustic SE · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ETH's Innovation Score is 53.3/100 (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.

Where ETH's grants concentrate

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 77.9% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (12 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2020. By volume, ETH sits between Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. and Malikie Innovations Limited.

ETH's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) moved from 25 to 26 grants (1.04x 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 #1,083. See the growth leaderboard.

Core Wireless Lic…

104
Cymer

104
Depuy Mitek

104
Dow Corning Toray

104
Gigamon

104
Leica Biosystems…

104
Lightlab Imaging

104
Malikie Innovatio…

104
ETH ZÜRICH (Eidge… ◀

104

What this shows ETH holds 104 patents at rank #3,532, 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 #3,532 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Vibracoustic SE 53 Vale S.A. 53 National University Corporation Nagoya University 53 ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.4 here).

Hydro-Quebec 20.4 avg Medtronic, Inc. 20.4 avg Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. 20.4 avg Cloudflare, Inc. 20.4 avg

ETH's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 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.

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ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	7.7%
2016	10	9.6%
2017	9	8.7%
2018	7	6.7%
2019	11	10.6%
2020	6	5.8%
2021	8	7.7%
2022	6	5.8%
2023	12	11.5%
2024	8	7.7%
2025partial year	19	18.3%

Which technologies does ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 81

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 29

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 29

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 21

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 20

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 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 2

G06G - Analogue Computers 2

H04B - Transmission 2

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 2

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,532

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.3 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

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH)'s lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 77.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #3,532 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) against Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.3/100 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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