Where does Ipco Germany GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ipco Germany GMBH ranks #35,966 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 Ipco Germany GMBH hold?

Ipco Germany GMBH holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Ipco Germany GMBH's Innovation Score?

Ipco Germany GMBH has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ipco Germany GMBH focus on?

Ipco Germany GMBH's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 3 patents, ranking #1,161 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ipco Germany GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ipco Germany GMBH's recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ipco Germany GMBH's patents?

Ipco Germany GMBH's patents average 16.7 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 Ipco Germany 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

Ipco Germany GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ipco ranks #35,966 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 15 technology areas.

#35,966
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R35966 · Foreign Corporation #35,966 · 7 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #35,966/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Iogenetics
CPC-FOCUS B01J · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Iogenetics, 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 Ipco’s 32.0 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 7.2 pts (23%) Velocity 1.1 pts (3%) Breadth 13.7 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ipco Germany · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ipco's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th percentile 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 Ipco?

Each dot is one of Ipco’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). Ipco’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ipco's grants concentrate

Ipco Germany GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 42.9% of grants classified under B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Ipco sits between Iogenetics, LLC and Iridium Medical Technology Co., Ltd..

Ipco's three-year grant acceleration

Ipco Germany GMBH shows 1 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.

Iogenetics

7
Ionic Solutions

7
Ioxt

7
IP Science

7
IQX

7
Iray Technology

7
Ircad

7
Iridium Medical T…

7
Ipco Germany ◀

7

What this shows Ipco holds 7 patents at rank #35,867, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ipco

By rank, the assignees closest to #35,867 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Ipco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Ipco Germany GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	14.3%
2020	3	42.9%
2021	2	28.6%
2024	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Ipco Germany GMBH patent most?

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

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 3

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 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

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 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

B27N - Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material 1

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 1

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

B30B - Presses IN General 1

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Ipco Germany GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ipco Germany GMBH's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 42.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #35,966 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ipco Germany GMBH against Iogenetics, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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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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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