Where does Sata GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sata GmbH & Co. KG ranks #4,171 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 Sata GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Sata GmbH & Co. KG holds 86 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Sata GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Sata GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 39.0 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sata GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Sata GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is B05B (Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles) with 22 patents. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sata GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sata GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -65% 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 Sata GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Sata GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 8.8 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 Sata 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

Sata GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 86 granted patents across 17 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: B05B (Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sata ranks #4,171 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 86 patents across 17 technology areas.

#4,171
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.0/100): 8.8
avg claims per patent: -65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4171 · Foreign Corporation #4,171 · 86 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 86 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,171/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Plastic Omnium…
CPC-FOCUS B05B · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and Research (±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
Arity International · near

39
Cardio Flow · near

39
JPW Industries · near

39
Sata & KG · this assignee

39
Taizhou Sukk… · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sata's Innovation Score is 39.0/100 (top 39% 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 Sata's grants concentrate

Sata GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 25.6% of grants classified under B05B (Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (19 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Sata sits between Protegrity Corporation and Wavefront Research, Inc..

Sata's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sata GmbH & Co. KG moved from 20 to 11 grants (0.55x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Protegrity

86
Plastic Omnium Ad…

86
Robe lighting s r…

86
Radian Memory Sys…

86
Syncmold Enterpri…

86
Telia AB

86
United Therapeuti…

86
Wavefront Research

86
Sata & KG ◀

86

What this shows Sata holds 86 patents at rank #4,171, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sata

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,171 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B05B (Spraying Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Taizhou Sukk Technology Co., Ltd 39 JPW Industries Inc. 39 Cardio Flow, Inc. 39 Arity International Limited 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.8 here).

Kunming University of Science and Technology 8.8 avg Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc. 8.8 avg Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd. 8.8 avg Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation 8.8 avg

Sata's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% 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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Sata GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	9.3%
2016	19	22.1%
2017	14	16.3%
2018	13	15.1%
2019	9	10.5%
2020	8	9.3%
2021	3	3.5%
2022	2	2.3%
2023	4	4.7%
2024	5	5.8%
2025partial year	1	1.2%

Which technologies does Sata GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 22

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 6

B01D - Separation 3

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 3

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 2

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 2

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,171

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.0 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

Sata GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sata GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is B05B (Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles), 25.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B05B
Ranked #4,171 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sata GmbH & Co. KG against Protegrity Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.0/100 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.