Where does Karl Storz SE & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Karl Storz SE & Co. KG ranks #1,169 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 Karl Storz SE & Co. KG hold?

Karl Storz SE & Co. KG holds 364 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Karl Storz SE & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Karl Storz SE & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Karl Storz SE & Co. KG focus on?

Karl Storz SE & Co. KG's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 260 patents, ranking #78 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

Is Karl Storz SE & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Karl Storz SE & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +112% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Karl Storz SE & Co. KG's patents?

Karl Storz SE & Co. KG's patents average 11.9 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 Karl Storz SE & 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

Karl Storz SE & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 364 granted patents across 55 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Karl ranks #1,169 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 364 patents across 55 technology areas.

#1,169
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: +112%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1169 · Foreign Corporation #1,169 · 364 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 364 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,169/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Excalibur IP
CPC-WIDE A61B · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +112% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Excalibur IP, 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 Karl’s 57.5 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 (35%) Velocity 5.0 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Karl Storz SE & KG · this assignee

57
Nano and Advanced… · near

57
The PNC Financial… · near

57
Toyobo · near

57
Daio Paper · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Karl's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 Karl?

Each dot is one of Karl’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). Karl’s own 11.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Karl's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Karl Storz SE & Co. KG received 229 grants versus 108 in 2015–2019 (+112% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 62 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 4. Lead class A61B accounts for 71.4% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Gojo Industries, Inc. (#1,165) and Sigmasense, LLC. (#1,173).

Karl's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Karl Storz SE & Co. KG moved from 167 to 124 grants (0.74x 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 #2,009. See the growth leaderboard.

Gojo Industries

365
HFI Innovation

365
Purdue Pharma

365
Excalibur IP

364
Karl Storz SE & KG ◀

364
Ability Opto- Tec…

363
Fenwal

363
Nippon Electric G…

363
Sigmasense

363

What this shows Karl holds 364 patents at rank #1,169, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Karl

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,169 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Karl, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Karl ranks #78 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Toyobo Co., Ltd. 57 Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited 57 The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 57 Daio Paper Corporation 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.9 here).

SK On Co., Ltd. 11.9 avg Shenzhen Institutes OF Advanced Technology 11.9 avg Dolby International AB 11.9 avg Olympus Corporation 11.9 avg

Karl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Karl Storz SE & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	4	1.1%
2018	42	11.5%
2019	62	17.0%
2020	60	16.5%
2021	45	12.4%
2022	37	10.2%
2023	41	11.3%
2024	46	12.6%
2025partial year	27	7.4%

Which technologies does Karl Storz SE & Co. KG patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 260

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 67

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 35

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 9

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 7

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 6

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 6

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

F16H - Gearing 5

Top 15 of 55 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

Karl Storz SE & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Karl Storz SE & Co. KG's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #1,169 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Karl Storz SE & Co. KG against Gojo Industries, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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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