Where does Huber SE rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Huber SE ranks #24,487 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Huber SE hold?

Huber SE holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Huber SE's Innovation Score?

Huber SE has an Innovation Score of 31.2 out of 100 (top 63% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Huber SE focus on?

Huber SE's top technology area is B01D (SEPARATION) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Huber SE's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Huber SE's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Huber SE's patents?

Huber SE's patents average 15.9 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 Huber SE 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

Huber SE

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: B01D (SEPARATION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Huber ranks #24,487 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 11 technology areas.

#24,487
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 63%
by Innovation Score (31.2/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24487 · Foreign Corporation #24,487 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,487/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH HOUGHTON TECHNICAL
CPC-FOCUS B01D · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Houghton Technical Corp. (±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
Black Peak · near

31
Huber SE · this assignee

31
Teikoku Seiyaku · near

31
Zhejiang E-P Equipment · near

31
Nichirin · near

31
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Huber's Innovation Score is 31.2/100 (top 63% 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 Huber's grants concentrate

Huber SE is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under B01D (SEPARATION). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Huber sits between Houghton Technical Corp. and Hydac Electronic Gmbh.

Huber's three-year grant acceleration

Huber SE shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Houghton Technical

11
HP3 Real

11
Hsing CHAU Indust…

11
HTS

11
Huizhou Roypow Te…

11
Huxley Medical

11
HVAC Inventors/Sy…

11
Hydac

11
Huber SE ◀

11

What this shows Huber holds 11 patents at rank #24,454, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Huber

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,454 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01D (Separation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Huber, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (31 here).

Black Peak Llc 31 Zhejiang E-P Equipment Co., Ltd. 31 Teikoku Seiyaku Co., Ltd. 31 Nichirin Co., Ltd. 31

Huber's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 Top 63% higher than 37% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Huber SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	18.2%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	2	18.2%
2019	3	27.3%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	1	9.1%
2023	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Huber SE patent most?

B01D - SEPARATION 9

E03F - SEWERS; CESSPOOLS 6

E02B - HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING 5

C02F - TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE 4

B30B - PRESSES IN GENERAL 2

F26B - DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM 2

Y02W - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT 1

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

B07B - SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL 1

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 1

B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,487

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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.