Where does Plansee SE rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Plansee SE ranks #5,786 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 Plansee SE hold?

Plansee SE holds 59 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Plansee SE's Innovation Score?

Plansee SE has an Innovation Score of 50.4 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Plansee SE's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Plansee SE's recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Plansee SE's patents?

Plansee SE's patents average 14.3 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 Plansee SE 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

Plansee SE

Q: What technology areas does Plansee SE focus on?

Plansee SE's top technology area is B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder) with 25 patents, ranking #55 of 926 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 59 granted patents across 45 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: B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Plansee ranks #5,786 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 59 patents across 45 technology areas.

#5,786
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.4/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5786 · Foreign Corporation #5,786 · 59 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 59 grants
UPPER-Q #5,786/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Orion
CPC-WIDE B22F · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Orion Corporation (±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 Plansee’s 50.4 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 14.1 pts (28%) Velocity 3.9 pts (8%) Breadth 23.7 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carvana · near

50
Cyclingdeal USA · near

50
McKesson · near

50
PanPsy · near

50
Plansee SE · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Plansee's Innovation Score is 50.4/100 (top 13% 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 Plansee?

Each dot is one of Plansee’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). Plansee’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Plansee's grants concentrate

Plansee SE is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 42.4% of grants classified under B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Plansee sits between Orion Corporation and Revision Military S.a.r.L..

Plansee's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Plansee SE moved from 22 to 13 grants (0.59x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Orion

59
Orvance

59
Otsuka Pharmaceut…

59
Pum-tech Korea

59
Qingdao Pico Tech…

59
Rainbow Medical

59
Rebellion Photoni…

59
Revision Military…

59
Plansee SE ◀

59

What this shows Plansee holds 59 patents at rank #5,787, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Plansee

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,787 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B22F (Working Metallic Powder)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Plansee, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B22F (Working Metallic Powder), Plansee ranks #55 of 926 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

PanPsy Technologies, LLC 50 McKesson Corporation 50 Cyclingdeal USA, Inc. 50 Carvana, LLC 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. 14.3 avg Rohinni, Inc. 14.3 avg Silk Road Medical, Inc. 14.3 avg NxStage Medical, Inc. 14.3 avg

Plansee's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Plansee SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.1%
2016	7	11.9%
2017	8	13.6%
2018	5	8.5%
2019	7	11.9%
2020	8	13.6%
2021	7	11.9%
2022	3	5.1%
2023	3	5.1%
2024	7	11.9%
2025partial year	1	1.7%

Which technologies does Plansee SE patent most?

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 25

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 24

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 22

C22C - Alloys 21

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 11

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 9

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 8

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 8

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 7

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 6

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 4

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 4

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 3

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 3

Top 15 of 45 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

Plansee SE's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Plansee SE's lead technology class is B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder), 42.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B22F
Ranked #5,786 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Plansee SE against Orion Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.4/100 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.

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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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