Where does Henkel AG & Co. KGaA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Henkel AG & Co. KGaA ranks #268 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 Henkel AG & Co. KGaA hold?

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA holds 1,592 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 185 technology areas.

What is Henkel AG & Co. KGaA's Innovation Score?

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA has an Innovation Score of 65.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Henkel AG & Co. KGaA focus on?

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 417 patents, ranking #25 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 185 CPC subclasses total.

Is Henkel AG & Co. KGaA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA's recent grant velocity is +28% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Henkel AG & Co. KGaA's patents?

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA's patents average 12.6 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 Henkel AG & Co. KGaA 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

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,592 granted patents across 185 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Henkel ranks #268 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,592 patents across 185 technology areas.

#268
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.7/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: +28%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R268 · Foreign Corporation #268 · 1,592 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #268/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kohler
CPC-WIDE A61K · 185 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +28% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kohler Co. (±2 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 Henkel’s 65.7 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 25.5 pts (39%) Velocity 7.7 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
East China Normal… · near

66
Ecolab USA · near

66
Henkel & KGaA · this assignee

66
Kyocera · near

66
Strong Force TX… · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Henkel's Innovation Score is 65.7/100 (top 1% 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 Henkel?

Each dot is one of Henkel’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). Henkel’s own 12.6 claims/patent is at or below the 13.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Henkel's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA received 825 grants versus 643 in 2015–2019 (+28% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 202 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 97. Lead class A61K accounts for 26.2% of the portfolio across 185 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (#264) and Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (#272).

Henkel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA moved from 460 to 529 grants (1.15x 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 #867. See the growth leaderboard.

Hamamatsu Photoni…

1,615
Ecolab USA

1,610
Nitto Denko

1,608
Kohler

1,594
Henkel & Kgaa ◀

1,592
Changxin Memory

1,589
Here Global B V

1,589
Sprint Communicat…

1,574
Wuhan China Star…

1,572

What this shows Henkel holds 1,592 patents at rank #268, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Henkel

By rank, the assignees closest to #268 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Henkel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Henkel ranks #25 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Ecolab USA Inc. 66 Kyocera Corporation 66 Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC 66 East China Normal University 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

E Ink Holdings Inc. 12.6 avg Shenzhen Royole Technologies Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Prince Mohammad BIN Fahd University 12.6 avg Asensus Surgical US, Inc. 12.6 avg

Henkel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Henkel AG & Co. KGaA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	97	6.1%
2016	114	7.2%
2017	132	8.3%
2018	136	8.5%
2019	164	10.3%
2020	148	9.3%
2021	148	9.3%
2022	184	11.6%
2023	143	9.0%
2024	202	12.7%
2025partial year	124	7.8%

Which technologies does Henkel AG & Co. KGaA patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 417

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 415

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 296

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 277

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 208

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 193

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 164

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 126

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 118

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 94

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 83

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 78

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 69

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 62

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 60

Top 15 of 185 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

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 26.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #268 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Henkel AG & Co. KGaA against Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.7/100 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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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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