Where does Paul Scherrer Institut rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Paul Scherrer Institut ranks #5,394 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Paul Scherrer Institut hold?

Paul Scherrer Institut holds 64 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Paul Scherrer Institut's Innovation Score?

Paul Scherrer Institut has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Paul Scherrer Institut's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Paul Scherrer Institut's recent grant velocity is -26% 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 Paul Scherrer Institut's patents?

Paul Scherrer Institut's patents average 14.1 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 Paul Scherrer Institut 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

Paul Scherrer Institut

Q: What technology areas does Paul Scherrer Institut focus on?

Paul Scherrer Institut's top technology area is G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES) with 22 patents. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 64 granted patents across 56 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: G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Paul ranks #5,394 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 64 patents across 56 technology areas.

#5,394
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5394 · Foreign Corporation #5,394 · 64 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 64 grants
UPPER-Q #5,394/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Nokian Tyres
CPC-WIDE G01N · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nokian Tyres Plc (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alcatel-lucent USA · near

53
Clearsign Combustion · near

53
Paul Scherrer Institut · this assignee

53
Rockspoon · near

53
Shandong NEW Beiyang… · near

53
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Paul Scherrer Institut stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-WIDE, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DOWN, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #5,394 of 50,000; Innovation Score 53.5/100 sits in the top 9% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Nokian Tyres Plc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Paul Scherrer Institut has been granted 64 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Paul Scherrer Institut at #5,394 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 56 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 14.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES). As a Foreign Corporation, Paul Scherrer Institut is one of the broader-portfolio assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Paul sits between Nokian Tyres Plc (64 patents, rank #5,389) and Senvion SE (64 patents, rank #5,397) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 53.5/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 25 grants, compared with 34 in the 2015–2019 window, a -26% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Paul Scherrer Institut's 14.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 56 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Nokian Tyres

64
OJJO

64
Otto Bock Healthc…

64
Oxilio

64
Penumbra

64
Rakuten KOBO

64
Rubbermaid Incorp…

64
Senvion SE

64
Paul Scherrer Ins… ◀

64

What this shows Paul holds 64 patents at rank #5,393, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Paul

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,393 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Paul, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Rockspoon, Inc 53 Shandong NEW Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd. 53 Clearsign Combustion Corporation 53 Alcatel-lucent USA Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.1 here).

Curna, Inc. 14.1 avg Brown University 14.1 avg Bae Systems Hägglunds Aktiebolag 14.1 avg Noxell Corporation 14.1 avg

Paul's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 50,000 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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Paul Scherrer Institut patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	12.5%
2016	5	7.8%
2017	4	6.3%
2018	7	10.9%
2019	10	15.6%
2020	5	7.8%
2021	4	6.3%
2022	3	4.7%
2023	7	10.9%
2024	6	9.4%
2025partial year	5	7.8%

Which technologies does Paul Scherrer Institut patent most?

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 22

C07K - PEPTIDES 16

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 16

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 11

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 10

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 6

G01T - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION 6

C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE 6

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 6

G21K - TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING PARTICLES OR IONISING RADIATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; IRRADIATION DEVICES; GAMMA RAY OR X-RAY MICROSCOPES 5

H01J - ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS 5

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY 4

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 4

C07F - ACYCLIC, CARBOCYCLIC OR HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING ELEMENTS OTHER THAN CARBON, HYDROGEN, HALOGEN, OXYGEN, NITROGEN, SULFUR, SELENIUM OR TELLURIUM 4

C07C - ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 4

Top 15 of 56 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,394

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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