Where does Oberthur Technologies rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oberthur Technologies ranks #4,347 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 Oberthur Technologies hold?

Oberthur Technologies holds 82 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Oberthur Technologies's Innovation Score?

Oberthur Technologies has an Innovation Score of 44.8 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Oberthur Technologies focus on?

Oberthur Technologies's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 35 patents, ranking #1,306 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Is Oberthur Technologies's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oberthur Technologies's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Oberthur Technologies's patents?

Oberthur Technologies's patents average 16.5 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 Oberthur Technologies 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

Oberthur Technologies

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 82 granted patents across 31 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oberthur ranks #4,347 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 82 patents across 31 technology areas.

#4,347
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.8/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4347 · Foreign Corporation #4,347 · 82 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 82 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,347/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lufthansa Technik
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lufthansa Technik AG (±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 Oberthur’s 44.8 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 15.3 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 19.7 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kornit Digital · near

45
Oberthur · this assignee

45
Pixtronix · near

45
S D Sight Diagnostics · near

45
Saint-gobain… · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oberthur's Innovation Score is 44.8/100 (top 25% 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 Oberthur?

Each dot is one of Oberthur’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). Oberthur’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Oberthur's grants concentrate

Oberthur Technologies is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 42.7% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (30 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Oberthur sits between Lufthansa Technik AG and Purina Animal Nutrition LLC.

Lufthansa Technik

82
Lund Motion Produ…

82
Magneti Marelli S…

82
Nova Measuring In…

82
Ortho-clinical Di…

82
OUR United

82
Pixtronix

82
Purina Animal Nut…

82
Oberthur ◀

82

What this shows Oberthur holds 82 patents at rank #4,345, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oberthur

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,345 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oberthur, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Oberthur ranks #1,306 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Pixtronix, Inc. 45 Kornit Digital Ltd. 45 S.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd. 45 Saint-gobain Performance Plastics France 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

EndoChoice, Inc. 16.5 avg Ledvance GMBH 16.5 avg Intermolecular, Inc. 16.5 avg Vertiv Corporation 16.5 avg

Oberthur's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Oberthur Technologies patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	28.0%
2016	21	25.6%
2017	30	36.6%
2018	7	8.5%
2021	1	1.2%

Which technologies does Oberthur Technologies patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 35

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 27

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 25

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 4

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 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

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

Top 15 of 31 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

Oberthur Technologies's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oberthur Technologies's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 42.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,347 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oberthur Technologies against Lufthansa Technik AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.8/100 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.