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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG ranks #11,668 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 Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

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

Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 47.1 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -91% 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 Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 15.5 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 Heraeus Precious Metals 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 Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is H01G (CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type) with 11 patents, ranking #64 of 580 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 31 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: H01G (CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heraeus ranks #11,668 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 31 technology areas.

#11,668
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.1/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11668 · Foreign Corporation #11,668 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,668/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Global Dental Science
CPC-FOCUS H01G · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Global Dental Science, 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.

How Heraeus’s 47.1 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 11.4 pts (24%) Velocity 6.7 pts (14%) Breadth 19.7 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
International… · near

47
UV Partners · near

47
Ecovacs Robotics · near

47
Heraeus Precious… · this assignee

47
Hitachi High-tech… · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heraeus's Innovation Score is 47.1/100 (top 19% 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 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 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 Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 42.3% of grants classified under H01G (CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Heraeus sits between Global Dental Science, LLC and Healgen Scientific Limited.

Heraeus's three-year grant acceleration

Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Global Dental Sci…

26
Glytech

26
Handi-craft

26
Hayashi Telempu

26
Horiba ABX SAS

26
Husky

26
Hangzhou Glority…

26
Healgen Scientific

26
Heraeus Precious… ◀

26

What this shows Heraeus holds 26 patents at rank #11,665, 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 #11,665 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01G (Capacitors)

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 H01G (Capacitors), Heraeus ranks #64 of 580 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Ecovacs Robotics Co., Ltd. 47 Hitachi High-tech Science Corporation 47 International Semiconductor Group 47 UV Partners, Inc. 47

Heraeus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	53.8%
2016	4	15.4%
2018	4	15.4%
2021	1	3.8%
2023	1	3.8%
2025partial year	2	7.7%

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

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 11

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 10

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 6

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 5

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 5

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

Top 15 of 31 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 Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is H01G (CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type), 42.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01G
Ranked #11,668 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heraeus Precious Metals GMBH & Co. KG against Global Dental Science, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.1/100 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

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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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