Where does Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH ranks #2,345 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 Jülich GmbH hold?

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH holds 167 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 105 technology areas.

What is Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH's Innovation Score?

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH has an Innovation Score of 54.8 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH focus on?

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 28 patents, ranking #536 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 105 CPC subclasses total.

Is Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH's recent grant velocity is -4% 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 Jülich GmbH's patents?

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH's patents average 15.9 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 Jülich 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

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 167 granted patents across 105 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, Forschungszentrum ranks #2,345 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 167 patents across 105 technology areas.

#2,345
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.8/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2345 · Foreign Corporation #2,345 · 167 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 167 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,345/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aruze Gaming America
CPC-WIDE G01N · 105 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aruze Gaming America, 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.

How Forschungszentrum’s 54.8 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 17.7 pts (32%) Velocity 2.6 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Thule Sweden AB · near

55
Apeel Technology · near

55
Forschungszentrum… · this assignee

55
Lake Region… · near

55
Super ATV · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Forschungszentrum's Innovation Score is 54.8/100 (top 7% 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 Forschungszentrum?

Each dot is one of Forschungszentrum’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). Forschungszentrum’s own 15.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Forschungszentrum's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH received 77 grants versus 80 in 2015–2019 (-4% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 7. Lead class G01N accounts for 16.8% of the portfolio across 105 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Xintec Inc. (#2,341) and Rakuten Mobile, Inc. (#2,349).

Forschungszentrum's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH moved from 74 to 29 grants (0.39x 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 #2,893. See the growth leaderboard.

Xintec

168
Aruze Gaming Amer…

167
Auburn University

167
BJ Energy Solutio…

167
J C Bamford Excav…

167
Lookout

167
Materion

167
Rakuten Mobile

167
Forschungszentrum… ◀

167

What this shows Forschungszentrum holds 167 patents at rank #2,345, 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 #2,345 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Forschungszentrum, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Forschungszentrum ranks #536 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Apeel Technology, Inc. 55 Lake Region Manufacturing, Inc. 55 Super ATV, LLC 55 Thule Sweden AB 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc. 15.9 avg Intrexon Corporation 15.9 avg Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. 15.9 avg Solvay Specialty Polymers USA, LLC 15.9 avg

Forschungszentrum's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	6.6%
2016	11	6.6%
2017	17	10.2%
2018	15	9.0%
2019	26	15.6%
2020	26	15.6%
2021	22	13.2%
2022	10	6.0%
2023	7	4.2%
2024	12	7.2%
2025partial year	10	6.0%

Which technologies does Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 28

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 25

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 23

C07K - Peptides 18

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 18

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 16

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 16

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 16

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 13

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 12

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 10

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 10

Top 15 of 105 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

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

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 16.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #2,345 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH against Xintec Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.8/100 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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