Where does Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon ranks #2,334 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 Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon hold?

Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon holds 168 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 78 technology areas.

What is Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon's Innovation Score?

Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon has an Innovation Score of 57.8 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%).

Is Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon's recent grant velocity is -13% 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 Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon's patents?

Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon's patents average 13.5 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 Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon 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

Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon

Q: What technology areas does Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon focus on?

Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon's top technology area is 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) with 149 patents, ranking #17 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 78 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 168 granted patents across 78 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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 Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oerlikon ranks #2,334 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 168 patents across 78 technology areas.

#2,334
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.8/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent: -13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2334 · Foreign Corporation #2,334 · 168 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 168 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,334/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Korea Research…
CPC-WIDE C23C · 78 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Korea Research Institute OF Bioscience AND Biotechnology (±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 Oerlikon’s 57.8 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 17.7 pts (31%) Velocity 7.0 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Oerlikon Surface… · this assignee

58
Seagen · near

58
Valinge Innovation AB · near

58
Nibco · near

58
North University OF… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oerlikon's Innovation Score is 57.8/100 (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 Oerlikon?

Each dot is one of Oerlikon’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). Oerlikon’s own 13.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Oerlikon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon received 71 grants versus 82 in 2015–2019 (-13% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 13. Lead class C23C accounts for 88.7% of the portfolio across 78 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Korea Research Institute OF Bioscience AND Biotechnology (#2,330) and The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (#2,338).

Oerlikon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon moved from 42 to 44 grants (1.05x 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 #1,066. See the growth leaderboard.

Korea Research In…

168
Magna Exteriors

168
NLT

168
Netronome Systems

168
Research Foundati…

168
Sanden

168
Techtronic Floor…

168
The Government of…

168
Oerlikon Surface… ◀

168

What this shows Oerlikon holds 168 patents at rank #2,334, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oerlikon

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,334 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oerlikon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), Oerlikon ranks #17 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Valinge Innovation AB 58 Seagen Inc. 58 Nibco Inc. 58 North University OF China 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.5 here).

Spectranetics LLC 13.5 avg Amdocs Software Systems Limited 13.5 avg Flex Ltd. 13.5 avg Agfa Healthcare NV 13.5 avg

Oerlikon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	16	9.5%
2017	22	13.1%
2018	29	17.3%
2019	15	8.9%
2020	14	8.3%
2021	13	7.7%
2022	14	8.3%
2023	16	9.5%
2024	14	8.3%
2025partial year	15	8.9%

Which technologies does Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon patent most?

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 149

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 54

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 19

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 10

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 10

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 9

B23B - TURNING; Boring 8

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 7

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 7

C22C - Alloys 6

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 5

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 4

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 4

Top 15 of 78 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon's lead technology class is 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 Evap), 88.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #2,334 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon against Korea Research Institute OF Bioscience AND Biotechnology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.8/100 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

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