Where does Henkel IP & Holding GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Henkel IP & Holding GMBH ranks #1,115 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 IP & Holding GMBH hold?

Henkel IP & Holding GMBH holds 380 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 89 technology areas.

What is Henkel IP & Holding GMBH's Innovation Score?

Henkel IP & Holding GMBH has an Innovation Score of 53.3 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Henkel IP & Holding GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Henkel IP & Holding GMBH's recent grant velocity is -16% 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 Henkel IP & Holding GMBH's patents?

Henkel IP & Holding GMBH's patents average 12.5 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 IP & Holding 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

Henkel IP & Holding GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Henkel IP & Holding GMBH focus on?

Henkel IP & Holding GMBH's top technology area is C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives) with 142 patents. Grants appear in 89 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 380 granted patents across 89 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Henkel ranks #1,115 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 380 patents across 89 technology areas.

#1,115
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.3/100): 12.5
avg claims per patent: -16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1115 · Foreign Corporation #1,115 · 380 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 380 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,115/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aesculap
CPC-WIDE C09J · 89 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aesculap AG (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alpine · near

53
Henkel IP & Holding · this assignee

53
MegaChips · near

53
Fluor · near

53
GEA Food Solutions… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Henkel's Innovation Score is 53.3/100 (top 9% 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.

How Henkel's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Henkel IP & Holding GMBH received 174 grants versus 206 in 2015–2019 (-16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 91 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 2. Lead class C09J accounts for 37.4% of the portfolio across 89 subclasses. Volume neighbours: National Oilwell Varco, L.P. (#1,111) and Nuctech Company Limited (#1,119).

Henkel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Henkel IP & Holding GMBH moved from 211 to 9 grants (0.04x 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 #3,238. See the growth leaderboard.

National Oilwell…

382
TE Connectivity S…

381
Aesculap

380
BSH Home Applianc…

380
The United States…

380
US Synthetic

380
Henkel IP & Holdi… ◀

380
Emerson Climate

379
Nuctech

379

What this shows Henkel holds 380 patents at rank #1,115, 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 #1,115 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09J (Adhesives)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

MegaChips Corporation 53 Alpine Electronics, Inc. 53 Fluor Technologies Corporation 53 GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.5 here).

KOH Young Technology Inc 12.5 avg Karma Automotive LLC 12.5 avg Liqui-Box Corporation 12.5 avg Glory Ltd. 12.5 avg

Henkel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

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 IP & Holding GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	28	7.4%
2016	35	9.2%
2017	55	14.5%
2018	42	11.1%
2019	46	12.1%
2020	74	19.5%
2021	91	23.9%
2022	7	1.8%
2023	2	0.5%

Which technologies does Henkel IP & Holding GMBH patent most?

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 142

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 89

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 72

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 62

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 56

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 55

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 53

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 46

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 39

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 27

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 26

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 23

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 19

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 17

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 17

Top 15 of 89 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,115

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Henkel IP & Holding GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Henkel IP & Holding GMBH's lead technology class is C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives), 37.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09J
Ranked #1,115 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Henkel IP & Holding GMBH against National Oilwell Varco, L.P., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.3/100 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

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