Where does Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn ranks #9,601 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 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn hold?

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn's Innovation Score?

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn's recent grant velocity is -59% 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 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn's patents?

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn's patents average 14.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn

Q: What technology areas does Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn focus on?

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 21 patents, ranking #514 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn 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 PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 15 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: C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rheinische ranks #9,601 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 15 technology areas.

#9,601
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9601 · Foreign Corporation #9,601 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,601/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH RaQualia Pharma
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: RaQualia Pharma Inc. (±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 Rheinische’s 41.5 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 12.2 pts (29%) Velocity 6.7 pts (16%) Breadth 13.7 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FaceTec · near

42
GE Jenbacher OG · near

42
Innodisk · near

42
Metrologic Instruments · near

42
Rheinische Friedrich… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rheinische's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Rheinische?

Each dot is one of Rheinische’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). Rheinische’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Rheinische's grants concentrate

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Rheinische sits between Rockwool A/S and Sentreheart LLC.

Rheinische's three-year grant acceleration

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn shows 6 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.

Rockwool A/S

33
Rolic

33
RUG Doctor

33
Raqualia Pharma

33
Rompower Technolo…

33
Samyang Optics

33
Sensetime Interna…

33
Sentreheart

33
Rheinische Friedr… ◀

33

What this shows Rheinische holds 33 patents at rank #9,605, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rheinische

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,605 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rheinische, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Rheinische ranks #514 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Innodisk Corporation 42 FaceTec, Inc. 42 GE Jenbacher GmbH Co OG 42 Metrologic Instruments, Inc. 42

Rheinische's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	12.1%
2016	3	9.1%
2017	5	15.2%
2018	7	21.2%
2019	3	9.1%
2020	1	3.0%
2021	2	6.1%
2022	2	6.1%
2023	1	3.0%
2024	3	9.1%
2025partial year	2	6.1%

Which technologies does Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 21

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 20

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 18

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 10

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 5

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 4

C07K - Peptides 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

C12Y - Enzymes 2

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 1

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 1

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 1

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #9,601 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn against Rockwool A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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.