Where does Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG ranks #47,397 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 Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2015, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 24.4 out of 100 (15th percentile 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 Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 11.8 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 Materials Technology 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 Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2015. 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: H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heraeus ranks #47,397 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 10 technology areas.

#47,397
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 15th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.4/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R47397 · Foreign Corporation #47,397 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #47,397/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hemispheres for All
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hemispheres for All, LLC (±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
Heraeus Materials… · this assignee

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heraeus's Innovation Score is 24.4/100 (15th percentile 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.

Where Heraeus's grants concentrate

Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). By volume, Heraeus sits between Hemispheres for All, LLC and Hero Defense System, LLC.

Hemispheres for A…

5
Hemovent

5
Hendrickson Comme…

5
Henry Molded Prod…

5
Herddogg

5
Herdstar

5
Heritage Environm…

5
Hero Defense Syst…

5
Heraeus Materials… ◀

5

What this shows Heraeus holds 5 patents at rank #47,495, 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 #47,495 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10)

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

Heraeus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 15th percentile higher than 15% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 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 Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	100.0%

Which technologies does Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

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 2

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 1

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 1

C01C - AMMONIA; CYANOGEN; Compounds Thereof 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

D04B - Knitting 1

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#47,397

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

24.4 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

Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #47,397 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heraeus Materials Technology GmbH & Co. KG against Hemispheres for All, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.4/100 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

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.