Where does Heraeus Noblelight GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heraeus Noblelight GMBH ranks #8,042 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 Noblelight GMBH hold?

Heraeus Noblelight GMBH holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Heraeus Noblelight GMBH's Innovation Score?

Heraeus Noblelight GMBH has an Innovation Score of 45.6 out of 100 (top 23% 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 Noblelight GMBH focus on?

Heraeus Noblelight GMBH's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 13 patents, ranking #796 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is Heraeus Noblelight GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heraeus Noblelight GMBH's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Noblelight GMBH's patents?

Heraeus Noblelight GMBH's patents average 14.4 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 Noblelight 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

Heraeus Noblelight GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 39 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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 #8,042 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 39 technology areas.

#8,042
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.6/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8042 · Foreign Corporation #8,042 · 40 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,042/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Green Cross
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Green Cross Corporation (±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 45.6 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 12.8 pts (28%) Velocity 2.1 pts (5%) Breadth 22.1 pts (48%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shenzhen Poweroak… · near

46
Dcstar · near

46
Heraeus Noblelight · this assignee

46
NEX Team · near

46
PRx Performance · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heraeus's Innovation Score is 45.6/100 (top 23% 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 14.4 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.

Where Heraeus's grants concentrate

Heraeus Noblelight GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 32.5% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Heraeus sits between Gunze Limited and IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG.

Heraeus's three-year grant acceleration

Heraeus Noblelight GMBH shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Gunze

40
Green Cross

40
Guangdong Midea W…

40
Hangzhou Zero Zer…

40
HZO

40
Holland

40
Hunan University

40
IKA—Werke & KG

40
Heraeus Noblelight ◀

40

What this shows Heraeus holds 40 patents at rank #8,042, 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 #8,042 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.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Heraeus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Heraeus ranks #796 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

PRx Performance, LLC 46 NEX Team Inc. 46 Dcstar Inc 46 Shenzhen Poweroak Newener Co., Ltd 46

Heraeus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

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 Noblelight GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	15.0%
2016	9	22.5%
2017	5	12.5%
2018	3	7.5%
2019	4	10.0%
2020	7	17.5%
2021	2	5.0%
2023	3	7.5%
2024	1	2.5%

Which technologies does Heraeus Noblelight GMBH patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 13

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 10

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 9

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 8

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 5

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 5

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 5

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 5

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 5

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 4

Top 15 of 39 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 Noblelight GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Heraeus Noblelight GMBH's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 32.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #8,042 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heraeus Noblelight GMBH against Gunze Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.6/100 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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