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Heraeus Medical Components LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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 #12,964 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 28 technology areas.

#12,964
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 6%
by Innovation Score (55.9/100)
15.9
avg claims per patent
+2000%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12964 · US Corporation #12,964 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
  • MID-PACK #12,964/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Haimer
  • CPC-FOCUS A61N · 28 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 55.9/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-SURGE +2000% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Haimer GmbH (±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 55.9 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Heraeus

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Heraeus's Innovation Score is 55.9/100 (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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

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 15.9 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Heraeus vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 22.922.92323.1 0102030 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Hypr Corp. - 23, 24.91HyprHaimer GmbH - 23, 17.3HaimerHaoxiang Electric Energy (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. - 23, 11.22Haoxiang Electric…Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc. - 23, 18.26Harpoon Therapeut…Hipmunk, Inc. - 23, 17.91HipmunkHitachi Data Systems Engineering UK Limited - 23, 27.39Hitachi Data Syst…Hong Kong Ecoaqua Co., Limited - 23, 1.87Hong Kong EcoaquaHop Breeding Company, L.L.C. - 23, 1Hop Breeding L L CHeraeus Medical Components LLC - 23, 15.91Heraeus Medical C…
Heraeus vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Heraeus's grants concentrate

Heraeus Medical Components LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 69.6% of grants classified under A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Heraeus sits between Hypr Corp. and Hop Breeding Company, L.L.C..

Heraeus's three-year grant acceleration

Heraeus Medical Components LLC shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Who files at Heraeus's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Heraeus holds 23 patents at rank #12,968, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Heraeus

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,968 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61N (Electrotherapy)

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)

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Heraeus Medical Components LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2018 1 4.3%
2020 4 17.4%
2021 2 8.7%
2022 5 21.7%
2023 7 30.4%
2024 3 13.0%
2025partial year 1 4.3%

Which technologies does Heraeus Medical Components LLC patent most?

Top 15 of 28 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Heraeus Medical Components LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Heraeus Medical Components LLC's lead technology class is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy), 69.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61N
  • Ranked #12,964 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Heraeus Medical Components LLC against Hypr Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 55.9/100 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

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.