Where does Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG ranks #7,324 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 Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 43.1 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is G01G (Weighing) with 29 patents, ranking #5 of 427 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -72% 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 Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 10.0 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 Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG 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

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 38 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: G01G (Weighing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sartorius ranks #7,324 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 38 technology areas.

#7,324
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.1/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7324 · Foreign Corporation #7,324 · 45 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,324/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Radiant Opto (Suzhou)
CPC-FOCUS G01G · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Radiant Opto Electronics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (±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 Sartorius’s 43.1 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 13.2 pts (31%) Velocity 2.1 pts (5%) Breadth 21.8 pts (51%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Jeju National… · near

43
Protec · near

43
Sartorius LAB… · this assignee

43
Solvay USA · near

43
Xiamen Water Nymph… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sartorius's Innovation Score is 43.1/100 (top 29% 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 Sartorius?

Each dot is one of Sartorius’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). Sartorius’s own 10.0 claims/patent is at or below the 13.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Sartorius's grants concentrate

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 64.4% of grants classified under G01G (Weighing). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Sartorius sits between Reynolds Consumer Products LLC and SKY Tech Inc..

Sartorius's three-year grant acceleration

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Reynolds Consumer…

45
RPX

45
Radiant Opto (Suz…

45
Robertshaw Contro…

45
SCG Chemicals

45
Seiko Precision

45
Skidata

45
SKY Tech

45
Sartorius LAB Ins… ◀

45

What this shows Sartorius holds 45 patents at rank #7,321, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sartorius

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,321 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01G (Weighing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sartorius, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01G (Weighing), Sartorius ranks #5 of 427 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Protec Co., Ltd. 43 Xiamen Water Nymph Sanitary Technology Co., Ltd. 43 Jeju National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation 43 Solvay USA Inc. 43

Sartorius's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% 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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Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.4%
2016	6	13.3%
2017	7	15.6%
2018	9	20.0%
2019	8	17.8%
2020	2	4.4%
2021	3	6.7%
2024	4	8.9%
2025partial year	4	8.9%

Which technologies does Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

G01G - Weighing 29

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

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 6

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 3

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 3

B01D - Separation 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

Top 15 of 38 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

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is G01G (Weighing), 64.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01G
Ranked #7,324 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sartorius LAB Instruments GMBH & Co. KG against Reynolds Consumer Products LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.1/100 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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