Where does IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG ranks #8,047 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 IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG hold?

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 41.6 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing) with 16 patents, ranking #38 of 1,218 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +29% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 15.3 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 IKA—WERKE 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

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 19 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: B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ika—werke ranks #8,047 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 19 technology areas.

#8,047
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.6/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8047 · Foreign Corporation #8,047 · 40 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,047/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Heraeus Noblelight
CPC-FOCUS B01F · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Heraeus Noblelight 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 Ika—werke’s 41.6 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 (31%) Velocity 4.2 pts (10%) Breadth 15.4 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AT&S(China) · near

42
IKA—WERKE & KG · this assignee

42
Innophase · near

42
Sanovas Intellectual… · near

42
Zoosk · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ika—werke's Innovation Score is 41.6/100 (top 33% 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 Ika—werke?

Each dot is one of Ika—werke’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). Ika—werke’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Ika—werke vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Ika—werke's grants concentrate

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Ika—werke sits between Heraeus Noblelight GMBH and Incredible Technologies, Inc..

Ika—werke's three-year grant acceleration

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Heraeus Noblelight

40
HZO

40
Holland

40
Hunan University

40
Innomotics

40
Icron

40
Illuminoss Medical

40
Incredible

40
IKA—Werke & KG ◀

40

What this shows IKA—WERKE holds 40 patents at rank #8,046, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near IKA—WERKE

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,046 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01F (Mixing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in IKA—WERKE's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for IKA—WERKE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01F (Mixing), IKA—WERKE ranks #38 of 1,218 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Innophase, Inc. 42 Sanovas Intellectual Property, LLC 42 Zoosk, Inc. 42 AT&S(China) Co. Ltd. 42

Ika—werke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	10.0%
2016	2	5.0%
2017	5	12.5%
2018	2	5.0%
2019	4	10.0%
2020	5	12.5%
2021	7	17.5%
2022	5	12.5%
2023	3	7.5%
2024	2	5.0%
2025partial year	1	2.5%

Which technologies does IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 16

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 12

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 4

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01G - Weighing 3

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

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

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 1

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F28C - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media Come Into Direct Contact Without Chemical Interaction 1

B01D - Separation 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 15 of 19 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

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01F
Ranked #8,047 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare IKA—WERKE GMBH & Co. KG against Heraeus Noblelight GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.6/100 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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