Where does GRÜNENTHAL GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GRÜNENTHAL GMBH ranks #5,011 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 GRÜNENTHAL GMBH hold?

GRÜNENTHAL GMBH holds 69 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is GRÜNENTHAL GMBH's Innovation Score?

GRÜNENTHAL GMBH has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does GRÜNENTHAL GMBH focus on?

GRÜNENTHAL GMBH's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 58 patents, ranking #299 of 6,058 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is GRÜNENTHAL GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GRÜNENTHAL GMBH's recent grant velocity is -45% 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 GRÜNENTHAL GMBH's patents?

GRÜNENTHAL GMBH's patents average 17.1 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 GRÜNENTHAL 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

GRÜNENTHAL GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 69 granted patents across 19 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Grünenthal ranks #5,011 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 69 patents across 19 technology areas.

#5,011
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5011 · Foreign Corporation #5,011 · 69 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 69 grants
UPPER-Q #5,011/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Eaton Cummins…
CPC-FOCUS A61P · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Diehl Metering · near

42
Progressive… · near

42
Apex Industrial · near

42
GRÜNENTHAL · this assignee

42
Vitra · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Grünenthal's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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 Grünenthal's grants concentrate

GRÜNENTHAL GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 84.1% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Grünenthal sits between Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies LLC and Hyperconnect LLC.

Grünenthal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GRÜNENTHAL GMBH moved from 22 to 7 grants (0.32x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Eaton Cummins Aut…

69
Endress+Hauser Pr…

69
Fourstar Group

69
Gravic

69
Guangzhou Shirui

69
Hangzhou Great St…

69
Hanwha Solutions

69
Hyperconnect

69
GRÜNenthal ◀

69

What this shows GRÜNENTHAL holds 69 patents at rank #5,011, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GRÜNENTHAL

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,011 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GRÜNENTHAL, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…), GRÜNENTHAL ranks #299 of 6,058 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Vitra AG 42 Apex Industrial Technologies LLC 42 Diehl Metering GmbH 42 Progressive Casualty Insurance Company 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Innoscience (SUZHOU) Technology Co., Ltd. 17.1 avg Albireo AB 17.1 avg Angel Co., Ltd. 17.1 avg STC.UNM 17.1 avg

Grünenthal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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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GRÜNENTHAL GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	8.7%
2016	8	11.6%
2017	11	15.9%
2018	14	20.3%
2019	5	7.2%
2020	14	20.3%
2021	3	4.3%
2022	2	2.9%
2023	2	2.9%
2024	3	4.3%
2025partial year	1	1.4%

Which technologies does GRÜNENTHAL GMBH patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 58

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 45

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 31

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 5

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 3

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 3

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

B30B - Presses IN General 1

G01G - Weighing 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,011

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.4 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

GRÜNENTHAL GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GRÜNENTHAL GMBH's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 84.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #5,011 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GRÜNENTHAL GMBH against Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.4/100 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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