Where does FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG ranks #4,380 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG's Innovation Score?

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG focus on?

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 14 patents, ranking #1,832 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 73 CPC subclasses total.

Is FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG's patents?

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG's patents average 18.6 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG

Q: How many patents does FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG hold?

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG holds 81 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 73 technology areas.

Q: How is the FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG 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 - 81 granted patents across 73 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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According to USPTO PatentsView, Friedrich-alexander-universität ranks #4,380 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 81 patents across 73 technology areas.

#4,380
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4380 · Foreign Corporation #4,380 · 81 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 81 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,380/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Consolidated…
CPC-WIDE H04L · 73 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (±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 Friedrich-alexander-universität’s 57.5 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 15.2 pts (26%) Velocity 6.1 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Trax Technology… · near

58
FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-… · this assignee

58
Ballogy · near

57
King's College London · near

57
Nova · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Friedrich-alexander-universität's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 Friedrich-alexander-universität?

Each dot is one of Friedrich-alexander-universität’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). Friedrich-alexander-universität’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Friedrich-alexander-universität vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Friedrich-alexander-universität's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG received 36 grants versus 42 in 2015–2019 (-14% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 11 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 3. Lead class H04L accounts for 17.3% of the portfolio across 73 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (#4,375) and Hisense Mobile Communications Technology Co., Ltd. (#4,383).

Friedrich-alexander-universität's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG moved from 24 to 22 grants (0.92x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Consolidated Nucl…

81
Dinkle Enterprise

81
ECO Holding 1

81
Eagle Harbor

81
Gyrus Medical

81
Griffin Technology

81
Hydrangea Breeder…

81
Hisense Mobile Co…

81
Friedrich-alexand… ◀

81

What this shows FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT holds 81 patents at rank #4,379, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,379 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ranks #1,832 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

King's College London 57 Ballogy, Inc. 57 Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd. 58 Nova Ltd. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd. 18.6 avg Parade Technologies, Ltd. 18.6 avg Roblox Corporation 18.6 avg Dental Imaging Technologies Corporation 18.6 avg

Friedrich-alexander-universität's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	11.1%
2016	9	11.1%
2017	8	9.9%
2018	6	7.4%
2019	10	12.3%
2020	11	13.6%
2021	3	3.7%
2022	7	8.6%
2023	8	9.9%
2024	7	8.6%
2025partial year	3	3.7%

Which technologies does FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 10

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 10

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

H04B - Transmission 8

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 6

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 6

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 5

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

C07K - Peptides 4

Top 15 of 73 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

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 17.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #4,380 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG against Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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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