Where does Harting Electronics GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Harting Electronics GmbH ranks #5,767 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 Harting Electronics GmbH hold?

Harting Electronics GmbH holds 59 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Harting Electronics GmbH's Innovation Score?

Harting Electronics GmbH has an Innovation Score of 34.4 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Harting Electronics GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Harting Electronics GmbH's recent grant velocity is -54% 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 Harting Electronics GmbH's patents?

Harting Electronics GmbH's patents average 11.8 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 Harting Electronics 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

Harting Electronics GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Harting Electronics GmbH focus on?

Harting Electronics GmbH's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 52 patents, ranking #64 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 59 granted patents across 11 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Harting ranks #5,767 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 59 patents across 11 technology areas.

#5,767
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.4/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: -54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5767 · Foreign Corporation #5,767 · 59 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 59 grants
UPPER-Q #5,767/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GigaLane
CPC-FOCUS H01R · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GigaLane Co., Ltd. (±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 Harting’s 34.4 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 14.1 pts (41%) Velocity 1.5 pts (4%) Breadth 11.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kason Industries · near

34
Surface & KG · near

34
Harting · this assignee

34
Netsuite · near

34
Epoch · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Harting's Innovation Score is 34.4/100 (48th 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 Harting?

Each dot is one of Harting’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). Harting’s own 11.8 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Harting's grants concentrate

Harting Electronics GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 88.1% 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 2016 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Harting sits between Gree Electric Appliances (WUHAN) Co., Ltd and Instrumentation Laboratory.

Harting's three-year grant acceleration

Harting Electronics GmbH shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Gree Electric App…

59
Gigalane

59
Global IP Holdings

59
Hanwha Vision

59
Hypres

59
Intrexon

59
Illumio

59
Instrumentation L…

59
Harting ◀

59

What this shows Harting holds 59 patents at rank #5,767, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Harting

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,767 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Harting, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Harting ranks #64 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Netsuite Inc. 34 Kason Industries, Inc. 34 Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG 34 Epoch Company, Ltd. 34

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.8 here).

Komatsu Industries Corporation 11.8 avg Canoo Technologies Inc. 11.8 avg Centre Hospitalier ET Universitaire DE Brest 11.8 avg Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG and PH 11.8 avg

Harting's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 48th percentile higher than 48% 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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Harting Electronics GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	11.9%
2016	12	20.3%
2017	8	13.6%
2018	8	13.6%
2019	4	6.8%
2020	6	10.2%
2021	8	13.6%
2023	3	5.1%
2024	1	1.7%
2025partial year	2	3.4%

Which technologies does Harting Electronics GmbH patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 52

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Harting Electronics GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Harting Electronics GmbH's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 88.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #5,767 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Harting Electronics GmbH against Gree Electric Appliances (WUHAN) Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.4/100 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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