Where does Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG ranks #1,962 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 Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG holds 205 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 104 technology areas.

What is Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 57.8 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy) with 62 patents, ranking #55 of 1,943 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 104 CPC subclasses total.

Is Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +12% 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 Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 15.0 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 Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG 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

Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 205 granted patents across 104 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: A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heraeus ranks #1,962 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 205 patents across 104 technology areas.

#1,962
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.8/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1962 · Foreign Corporation #1,962 · 205 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 205 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,962/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Airbnb
CPC-WIDE A61N · 104 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Airbnb, 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 Heraeus’s 57.8 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 18.4 pts (32%) Velocity 5.4 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ademco · near

58
CNH Industrial Canada · near

58
Heraeus Deutschland… · this assignee

58
RichWave Technology · near

58
University of Notre… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heraeus's Innovation Score is 57.8/100 (top 5% 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 Heraeus?

Each dot is one of Heraeus’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). Heraeus’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Heraeus's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG received 103 grants versus 92 in 2015–2019 (+12% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 6. Lead class A61N accounts for 30.2% of the portfolio across 104 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. (#1,958) and Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) (#1,966).

Heraeus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG moved from 73 to 59 grants (0.81x 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 #1,817. See the growth leaderboard.

Yanmar Power Tech…

206
Asml Holding

205
Airbnb

205
Beijing Voyager T…

205
Panasonic Automot…

205
Heraeus Deutschla… ◀

205
Crocs

204
Entropic Communic…

204
Essilor Internati…

204

What this shows Heraeus holds 205 patents at rank #1,962, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Heraeus

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,962 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61N (Electrotherapy)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Heraeus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61N (Electrotherapy), Heraeus ranks #55 of 1,943 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

University of Notre Dame du Lac 58 RichWave Technology Corp. 58 Ademco Inc. 58 CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan 15.0 avg Headway Technologies, Inc. 15.0 avg Aesculap AG 15.0 avg Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. 15.0 avg

Heraeus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	2.9%
2016	18	8.8%
2017	17	8.3%
2018	22	10.7%
2019	29	14.1%
2020	23	11.2%
2021	21	10.2%
2022	13	6.3%
2023	23	11.2%
2024	23	11.2%
2025partial year	10	4.9%

Which technologies does Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 62

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 35

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 33

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 31

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 30

C22C - Alloys 30

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 30

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 29

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 28

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 25

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 22

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 16

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 16

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 16

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 16

Top 15 of 104 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

Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy), 30.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61N
Ranked #1,962 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG against Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.8/100 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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