Where does Forschungszentrum Borstel rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Forschungszentrum Borstel ranks #46,838 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 Forschungszentrum Borstel hold?

Forschungszentrum Borstel holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Forschungszentrum Borstel's Innovation Score?

Forschungszentrum Borstel has an Innovation Score of 18.8 out of 100 (5th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Forschungszentrum Borstel's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Forschungszentrum Borstel's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Forschungszentrum Borstel's patents?

Forschungszentrum Borstel's patents average 6.6 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 Forschungszentrum Borstel 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

Forschungszentrum Borstel

Q: What technology areas does Forschungszentrum Borstel focus on?

Forschungszentrum Borstel's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Forschungszentrum ranks #46,838 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 6 technology areas.

#46,838
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 5th percentile
by Innovation Score (18.8/100): 6.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R46838 · Foreign Corporation #46,838 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #46,838/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Forge Therapeutics
CPC-NARROW A61P · 6 areas
INNOV-LOW 18.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Forge Therapeutics, 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
Forschungszentrum… · this assignee

19
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Forschungszentrum's Innovation Score is 18.8/100 (5th 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.

Where Forschungszentrum's grants concentrate

Forschungszentrum Borstel is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Forschungszentrum sits between Forge Therapeutics, Inc. and Foshan Eahison Communication Co., Ltd..

Forge Therapeutics

5
Formahoof

5
Formcept AND Solu…

5
Formycon

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Fortior Technolog…

5
Fortson-peek

5
Forward Therapeut…

5
Foshan Eahison Co…

5
Forschungszentrum… ◀

5

What this shows Forschungszentrum holds 5 patents at rank #46,750, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Forschungszentrum

By rank, the assignees closest to #46,750 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Forschungszentrum's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

19 5th percentile higher than 5% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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Forschungszentrum Borstel patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	20.0%
2016	2	40.0%
2017	1	20.0%
2018	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Forschungszentrum Borstel patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 5

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 2

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 2

C07K - Peptides 2

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#46,838

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

18.8 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

Forschungszentrum Borstel's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Forschungszentrum Borstel's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #46,838 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Forschungszentrum Borstel against Forge Therapeutics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 18.8/100 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

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.