Overall rank by patents
#5,767
of 50,000 tracked assignees
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).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, Harting ranks #5,767 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 59 patents across 11 technology areas.
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
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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Kason Industries · near
34 score
Surface & KG · near
34 score
Harting · this assignee
34 score
Netsuite · near
34 score
Epoch · near
34 score
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest
7 score
What this shows Harting Electronics Gmbh stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #5,767 of 50,000; Innovation Score 34.4/100 sits in the top 52% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Gigalane Co., Ltd. (±0 grants).
Harting Electronics Gmbh has been granted 59 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Harting Electronics Gmbh at #5,767 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 11 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 11.8 claims per patent with primary concentration in H01R (ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS). As a Foreign Corporation, Harting Electronics Gmbh is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Harting sits between GREE Electric Appliances (wuhan) Co., Ltd (59 patents, rank #5,763) and Instrumentation Laboratory (59 patents, rank #5,771) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 34.4/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.
Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 18 grants, compared with 39 in the 2015–2019 window, a -54% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.
Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Harting Electronics Gmbh's 11.8 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 11 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES (WUHAN) CO., LTD
59 patents
GigaLane Co., Ltd.
59 patents
Global IP Holdings, LLC
59 patents
HANWHA VISION CO., LTD.
59 patents
Hypres, Inc.
59 patents
INTREXON CORPORATION
59 patents
Illumio, Inc.
59 patents
Instrumentation Laboratory
59 patents
HARTING Electronics GmbH
59 patents
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.
By rank, the assignees closest to #5,767 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 (34 here).
Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.8 here).
Harting's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
34 Top 52% higher than 48% of 50,000 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 | 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% |
Top 11 of 11 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#5,767
of 50,000 tracked assignees
34.4 out of 100
Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.