Where does Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg ranks #4,485 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 Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg hold?

Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg holds 79 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg's Innovation Score?

Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg 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 Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg's recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg's patents?

Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg's patents average 13.9 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.

How is the Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg 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

Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg

Q: What technology areas does Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg focus on?

Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 55 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 79 granted patents across 20 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ruprecht ranks #4,485 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 79 patents across 20 technology areas.

#4,485
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4485 · Foreign Corporation #4,485 · 79 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 79 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,485/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nantero
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nantero, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Irwin Industrial Tool · near

41
Godo Kaisha IP… · near

41
Hitachi Industry &… · near

41
Ruprecht - Karls -… · this assignee

41
V Technology · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ruprecht'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.

Where Ruprecht's grants concentrate

Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 69.6% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Ruprecht sits between Nippon Mektron, Ltd. and Savant Systems, Inc..

Ruprecht's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg moved from 31 to 10 grants (0.32x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Nippon Mektron

79
Nissha

79
Nantero

79
Powermat

79
Ranpak

79
SK Siltron

79
SK ie technology

79
Savant Systems

79
Ruprecht - Karls… ◀

79

What this shows Ruprecht holds 79 patents at rank #4,484, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ruprecht

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,484 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

V Technology Co., Ltd. 41 Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 41 Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd. 41 Irwin Industrial Tool Company 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

MakerBot Industries, LLC 13.9 avg PlayNitride Inc. 13.9 avg SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited 13.9 avg Ossur Iceland EHF 13.9 avg

Ruprecht's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	11.4%
2016	9	11.4%
2017	5	6.3%
2018	14	17.7%
2019	16	20.3%
2020	8	10.1%
2021	7	8.9%
2022	6	7.6%
2023	1	1.3%
2024	3	3.8%
2025partial year	1	1.3%

Which technologies does Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 55

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 49

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 37

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 30

C07K - Peptides 29

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 11

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 11

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 6

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 6

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

C12Y - Enzymes 3

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,485

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 69.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #4,485 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg against Nippon Mektron, Ltd., 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

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