Where does Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH ranks #1,724 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 Stedim Biotech GmbH hold?

Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH holds 237 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 88 technology areas.

What is Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH's Innovation Score?

Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH has an Innovation Score of 58.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH's recent grant velocity is -13% 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 Stedim Biotech GmbH's patents?

Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH's patents average 13.4 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 Stedim Biotech GmbH 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 Stedim Biotech GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH focus on?

Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH's top technology area is C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters) with 84 patents, ranking #2 of 832 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 88 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 237 granted patents across 88 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: C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sartorius ranks #1,724 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 237 patents across 88 technology areas.

#1,724
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.3/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1724 · Foreign Corporation #1,724 · 237 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 237 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,724/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AVL List
CPC-WIDE C12M · 88 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AVL List GMBH (±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 58.3 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 18.9 pts (32%) Velocity 6.4 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Glaxosmithkline… · near

58
I-sens · near

58
Perkins Engines · near

58
Sartorius Stedim… · this assignee

58
V-nova International · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sartorius's Innovation Score is 58.3/100 (top 5% 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 13.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Sartorius's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH received 103 grants versus 118 in 2015–2019 (-13% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 34 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 16. Lead class C12M accounts for 35.4% of the portfolio across 88 subclasses. Volume neighbours: AVL List GMBH (#1,721) and Alps Electric Co., Ltd. (#1,729).

Sartorius's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH moved from 70 to 67 grants (0.96x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,301. See the growth leaderboard.

AVL List

237
Faraday & Future

237
Hitachi Maxell

237
Sicpa Holding

237
Tsubakimoto Chain

237
University of Lou…

237
Sartorius Stedim… ◀

237
AAC Microtech (Ch…

236
Alps Electric

236

What this shows Sartorius holds 237 patents at rank #1,725, 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 #1,725 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR Microbiology)

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 C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR Microbiology), Sartorius ranks #2 of 832 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Glaxosmithkline Biologicals SA 58 V-nova International Limited 58 Perkins Engines Company Limited 58 I-sens, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 13.4 avg HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg Firestone Building Products Company, LLC 13.4 avg Tungaloy Corporation 13.4 avg

Sartorius's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 Stedim Biotech GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	10.5%
2016	17	7.2%
2017	21	8.9%
2018	21	8.9%
2019	34	14.3%
2020	16	6.8%
2021	20	8.4%
2022	20	8.4%
2023	22	9.3%
2024	25	10.5%
2025partial year	16	6.8%

Which technologies does Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH patent most?

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 84

B01D - Separation 81

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 41

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 37

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 25

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

C07K - Peptides 12

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 12

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 11

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 11

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 10

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 9

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 7

Top 15 of 88 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 Stedim Biotech GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH's lead technology class is C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme), 35.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12M
Ranked #1,724 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH against AVL List GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.3/100 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

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