Where does Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH ranks #16,032 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 Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH hold?

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH's Innovation Score?

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH has an Innovation Score of 32.5 out of 100 (42nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH'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 Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH's patents?

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH's patents average 13.9 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 Freiberger Compound Materials 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

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH focus on?

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH's top technology area is C30B (Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI) with 16 patents, ranking #34 of 414 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 10 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: C30B (Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrys).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Freiberger ranks #16,032 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 10 technology areas.

#16,032
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.5/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16032 · Foreign Corporation #16,032 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,032/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Federal Home Loan…
CPC-FOCUS C30B · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (±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 Freiberger’s 32.5 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 10.2 pts (31%) Velocity 2.9 pts (9%) Breadth 11.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Adient Engineering… · near

33
CMI Defence · near

33
Freiberger Compound… · this assignee

33
Microdose Therapeutx · near

33
Becton Dickinson… · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Freiberger's Innovation Score is 32.5/100 (42nd 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Freiberger?

Each dot is one of Freiberger’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). Freiberger’s own 13.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Freiberger's grants concentrate

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under C30B (Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrys). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Freiberger sits between Forever Young International, Inc. and Ferrosan Medical Devices A/S.

Freiberger's three-year grant acceleration

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Forever Young Int…

18
Foshan Shunde Mid…

18
Foundations World…

18
Framery OY

18
Freshlink Product…

18
Fujian Nashida In…

18
Federal Home Loan…

18
Ferrosan Medical…

18
Freiberger Compou… ◀

18

What this shows Freiberger holds 18 patents at rank #16,018, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Freiberger

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,018 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C30B (Single-crystal Growth)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Freiberger, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C30B (Single-crystal Growth), Freiberger ranks #34 of 414 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

CMI Defence S.A. 33 Microdose Therapeutx, Inc. 33 Adient Engineering and IP GmbH 33 Becton Dickinson Holdings Pte. Ltd. 33

Freiberger's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% 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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Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	16.7%
2016	2	11.1%
2018	2	11.1%
2019	2	11.1%
2020	3	16.7%
2021	2	11.1%
2022	1	5.6%
2024	2	11.1%
2025partial year	1	5.6%

Which technologies does Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH patent most?

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 12

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 9

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH's lead technology class is C30B (Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrys), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C30B
Ranked #16,032 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH against Forever Young International, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.5/100 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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