Where does Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. ranks #6,478 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 North America Inc. hold?

Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Sartorius Stedim North America Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.8 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sartorius Stedim North America Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sartorius Stedim North America Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +88% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sartorius Stedim North America Inc.'s patents?

Sartorius Stedim North America Inc.'s patents average 17.9 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 Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. 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 US Corporation

Sartorius Stedim North America Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. focus on?

Sartorius Stedim North America Inc.'s top technology area is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators) with 13 patents, ranking #93 of 1,216 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 40 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: A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sartorius ranks #6,478 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 40 technology areas.

#6,478
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.8/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6478 · US Corporation #6,478 · 52 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,478/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sharp Life Science…
CPC-WIDE A01N · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sharp Life Science (EU) Limited (±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 54.8 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 13.7 pts (25%) Velocity 8.0 pts (15%) Breadth 22.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Seco Tools AB · near

55
HAI Robotics · near

55
Sartorius Stedim… · this assignee

55
Cenovus Energy · near

55
Kraton Polymers · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sartorius's Innovation Score is 54.8/100 (top 7% 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 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 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.

Where Sartorius's grants concentrate

Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 25% of grants classified under A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Sartorius sits between Shenzhen Neewer Technology Co. Ltd and Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing.

Sartorius's three-year grant acceleration

Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Shenzhen Neewer T…

52
Shop VAC

52
Sierra Wireless

52
Soremartec

52
Sharp Life Scienc…

52
Sun Hydraulics

52
Sutro Biopharma

52
Technology Resear…

52
Sartorius Stedim… ◀

52

What this shows Sartorius holds 52 patents at rank #6,485, 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 #6,485 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…)

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 A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…), Sartorius ranks #93 of 1,216 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

HAI Robotics Co., Ltd. 55 Cenovus Energy Inc. 55 Kraton Polymers LLC 55 Seco Tools AB 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Laurus Labs Limited 17.9 avg Autobrains Technologies Ltd 17.9 avg Cigna Intellectual Property, Inc. 17.9 avg Inguran, LLC 17.9 avg

Sartorius's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 North America Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.9%
2016	2	3.8%
2017	1	1.9%
2018	9	17.3%
2019	3	5.8%
2020	4	7.7%
2021	8	15.4%
2022	7	13.5%
2023	7	13.5%
2024	4	7.7%
2025partial year	6	11.5%

Which technologies does Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. patent most?

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 13

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 13

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 11

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

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 10

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 10

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 9

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 8

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 8

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

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 5

F25C - Producing, Working OR Handling ICE 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 4

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 4

Top 15 of 40 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 North America Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sartorius Stedim North America Inc.'s lead technology class is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators), 25% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01N
Ranked #6,478 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. against Shenzhen Neewer Technology Co. Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.8/100 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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