Where does Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG ranks #1,627 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 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG hold?

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG holds 253 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG's Innovation Score?

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG has an Innovation Score of 56.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG's recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG's patents?

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG's patents average 10.4 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 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG 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

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

Q: What technology areas does Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG focus on?

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG's top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 114 patents, ranking #25 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 253 granted patents across 59 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heidelberger ranks #1,627 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 253 patents across 59 technology areas.

#1,627
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.0/100): 10.4
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1627 · Foreign Corporation #1,627 · 253 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 253 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,627/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aruba Networks
CPC-WIDE B41J · 59 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aruba Networks, 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.

How Heidelberger’s 56.0 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 19.1 pts (34%) Velocity 5.6 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fujifilm Sonosite · near

56
Helen OF Troy · near

56
Jungheinrich · near

56
Basso Industry · near

56
Heidelberger… · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heidelberger's Innovation Score is 56.0/100 (top 6% 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 Heidelberger?

Each dot is one of Heidelberger’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). Heidelberger’s own 10.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Heidelberger's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG received 95 grants versus 150 in 2015–2019 (-37% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 35 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 12. Lead class B41J accounts for 45.1% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. (#1,623) and Stine Seed Farm, Inc. (#1,631).

Heidelberger's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG moved from 67 to 56 grants (0.84x 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 #1,702. See the growth leaderboard.

Mitsui Mining & S…

254
Shin-etsu Handotai

254
Aruba Networks

253
E Mishan & Sons

253
Home Depot Produc…

253
Illumina Cambridge

253
Reebok Internatio…

253
Stine Seed Farm

253
Heidelberger Druc… ◀

253

What this shows Heidelberger holds 253 patents at rank #1,627, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Heidelberger

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,627 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Heidelberger, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B41J (Typewriters), Heidelberger ranks #25 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Basso Industry Corp. 56 Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. 56 Helen OF Troy Limited 56 Jungheinrich AG 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.4 here).

Kyocera Corporation 10.4 avg Fositek Corporation 10.4 avg Caterpillar Sarl 10.4 avg Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation 10.4 avg

Heidelberger's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	13.4%
2016	30	11.9%
2017	35	13.8%
2018	23	9.1%
2019	28	11.1%
2020	27	10.7%
2021	12	4.7%
2022	24	9.5%
2023	18	7.1%
2024	14	5.5%
2025partial year	8	3.2%

Which technologies does Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 114

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 91

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 45

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 34

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 27

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 25

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 24

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 22

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 22

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 14

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 8

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

Top 15 of 59 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

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG's lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 45.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #1,627 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG against Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.0/100 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

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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

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