Where does Ivoclar Vivadent AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ivoclar Vivadent AG ranks #1,144 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 Ivoclar Vivadent AG hold?

Ivoclar Vivadent AG holds 370 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 73 technology areas.

What is Ivoclar Vivadent AG's Innovation Score?

Ivoclar Vivadent AG has an Innovation Score of 60.9 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ivoclar Vivadent AG focus on?

Ivoclar Vivadent AG's top technology area is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene) with 217 patents, ranking #5 of 546 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 73 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ivoclar Vivadent AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ivoclar Vivadent AG's recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Ivoclar Vivadent AG's patents?

Ivoclar Vivadent AG's patents average 15.7 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 Ivoclar Vivadent AG 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

Ivoclar Vivadent AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 370 granted patents across 73 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: A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ivoclar ranks #1,144 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 370 patents across 73 technology areas.

#1,144
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.9/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1144 · Foreign Corporation #1,144 · 370 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 370 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,144/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ball Horticultural
CPC-WIDE A61C · 73 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ball Horticultural Company (±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 Ivoclar’s 60.9 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 20.4 pts (34%) Velocity 6.0 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ivoclar Vivadent · this assignee

61
National Tsing HUA… · near

61
Suteng Innovation… · near

61
THE Chemours FC · near

61
Ecole Polytechnique… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ivoclar's Innovation Score is 60.9/100 (top 3% 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 Ivoclar?

Each dot is one of Ivoclar’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). Ivoclar’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Ivoclar's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ivoclar Vivadent AG received 169 grants versus 181 in 2015–2019 (-7% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 42 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 30. Lead class A61C accounts for 58.6% of the portfolio across 73 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (#1,140) and GE Video Compression, LLC (#1,148).

Ivoclar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ivoclar Vivadent AG moved from 111 to 100 grants (0.90x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,467. See the growth leaderboard.

Ventana Medical S…

371
Ball Horticultural

370
Dentsply Sirona

370
Eagle Industry

370
Jatco

370
Welch Allyn

370
Ivoclar Vivadent ◀

370
AAC Optics Soluti…

369
GE Video Compress…

369

What this shows Ivoclar holds 370 patents at rank #1,144, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ivoclar

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,144 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61C (Dentistry)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ivoclar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61C (Dentistry), Ivoclar ranks #5 of 546 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

THE Chemours Company FC, LLC 61 National Tsing HUA University 61 Suteng Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. 61 Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

Carestream Health, Inc. 15.7 avg Parallels International GmbH 15.7 avg MAN Truck &Bus AG 15.7 avg UDC Ireland Limited 15.7 avg

Ivoclar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Ivoclar Vivadent AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	8.1%
2016	38	10.3%
2017	36	9.7%
2018	35	9.5%
2019	42	11.4%
2020	33	8.9%
2021	36	9.7%
2022	35	9.5%
2023	35	9.5%
2024	30	8.1%
2025partial year	20	5.4%

Which technologies does Ivoclar Vivadent AG patent most?

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 217

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 125

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 57

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 45

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 43

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 40

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 37

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 32

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 28

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 25

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 23

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 20

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 19

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 18

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 14

Top 15 of 73 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

Ivoclar Vivadent AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ivoclar Vivadent AG's lead technology class is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene), 58.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61C
Ranked #1,144 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ivoclar Vivadent AG against Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.9/100 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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