Where does Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG ranks #11,719 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 Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG hold?

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG's Innovation Score?

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG's recent grant velocity is +88% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG's patents?

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG's patents average 14.2 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 Lpkf Laser & Electronics 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

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG

Q: What technology areas does Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG focus on?

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG's top technology area is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam) with 10 patents, ranking #192 of 1,623 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 29 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: B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lpkf ranks #11,719 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 29 technology areas.

#11,719
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11719 · Foreign Corporation #11,719 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,719/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lenze Automation
CPC-FOCUS B23K · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lenze Automation 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 Lpkf’s 50.0 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 11.4 pts (23%) Velocity 11.1 pts (22%) Breadth 19.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Emerson Process… · near

50
Inventec Appliances… · near

50
Lpkf Laser & · this assignee

50
NantOmics · near

50
U S Bank National… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lpkf's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% 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 Lpkf?

Each dot is one of Lpkf’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). Lpkf’s own 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lpkf's grants concentrate

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 38.5% of grants classified under B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Lpkf sits between Lianyungang Runzhong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Lenze Automation GmbH.

Lpkf's three-year grant acceleration

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG shows 10 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.

Lianyungang Runzh…

26
Lilac Solutions

26
Lingsen Precision…

26
London Health Sci…

26
Luminati Networks

26
Luminit

26
LXL Group

26
Lenze Automation

26
Lpkf Laser & ◀

26

What this shows Lpkf holds 26 patents at rank #11,715, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lpkf

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,715 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lpkf, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering), Lpkf ranks #192 of 1,623 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Emerson Process Management Power & Water Solutions, Inc. 50 NantOmics, LLC 50 Inventec Appliances (Pudong) Corporation 50 U.S. Bank National Association 50

Lpkf's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.8%
2016	1	3.8%
2017	4	15.4%
2018	1	3.8%
2019	1	3.8%
2020	2	7.7%
2021	3	11.5%
2022	7	26.9%
2023	2	7.7%
2024	1	3.8%
2025partial year	3	11.5%

Which technologies does Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG patent most?

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 10

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 10

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 4

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 3

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 3

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 3

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

Top 15 of 29 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

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG's lead technology class is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam), 38.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23K
Ranked #11,719 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lpkf Laser & Electronics AG against Lianyungang Runzhong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 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

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.