Overall rank by patents
#2,723
of 49,997 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 142 granted patents across 41 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, Harting ranks #2,723 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 142 patents across 41 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R2723 · Foreign Corporation #2,723 · 142 grants
GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL
Nearest grant-volume peer: Cohere Technologies, 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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Harting Electric & KG · this assignee
51 score
Ipla Holdings · near
51 score
Korea Electric Power · near
51 score
Nunhems B V · near
51 score
VIA Alliance… · near
51 score
3D Lighting… · lowest
7 score
What this shows Harting's Innovation Score is 50.6/100 (top 13% 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.
Harting Electric GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 85.2% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (23 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2015. By volume, Harting sits between Coopervision International Limited and Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd..
From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Harting Electric GMBH & Co. KG moved from 65 to 34 grants (0.52x 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 #2,632. See the growth leaderboard.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
Coopervision International Limited
142 patents
Cohere Technologies, Inc.
142 patents
DTS, Inc.
142 patents
Fondazione Istituto Italiano DI Tecnologia
142 patents
Holtec International
142 patents
IEE International Electronics & Engineering S.A.
142 patents
Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd.
142 patents
Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd.
142 patents
Harting Electric GMBH & Co. KG
142 patents
What this shows Harting holds 142 patents at rank #2,723, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #2,723 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in Harting's primary technology class.
Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Harting, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).
Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).
Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.3 here).
Harting's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | 4.2% |
| 2016 | 10 | 7.0% |
| 2017 | 13 | 9.2% |
| 2018 | 11 | 7.7% |
| 2019 | 23 | 16.2% |
| 2020 | 22 | 15.5% |
| 2021 | 20 | 14.1% |
| 2022 | 18 | 12.7% |
| 2023 | 7 | 4.9% |
| 2024 | 9 | 6.3% |
| 2025partial year | 3 | 2.1% |
Top 15 of 41 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#2,723
of 49,997 tracked assignees
50.6 out of 100
What to do with this data
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Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.
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