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Sauter Feinmechanik GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Co).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sauter ranks #27,318 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 5 technology areas.

#27,318
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
29th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.0/100)
14.0
avg claims per patent
+0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27318 · Foreign Corporation #27,318 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
  • MID-PACK #27,318/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sanexen Environmenta…
  • CPC-NARROW B23Q · 5 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 29.0/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-FLAT +0% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sanexen Environmental Services 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.

How Sauter’s 29.0 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Sauter

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Sauter's Innovation Score is 29.0/100 (29th percentile 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Sauter?

Each dot is one of Sauter’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). Sauter’s own 14.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Sauter vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 9.99.91010.1 681012141618 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Sanexen Environmental Services Inc. - 10, 10.9Sanexen Environme…Sangenic International Ltd. - 10, 8.2Sangenic Internat…Sanovo Technology Netherlands B.V. - 10, 13.5Sanovo Technology…Sasol Technology (PTY.) Limited - 10, 16.9Sasol Technology…Sb-kawasumi Laboratories, Inc. - 10, 8.4Sb-kawasumi Labor…SCA Forest Products AB - 10, 14.4SCA Forest Produc…SCF Pharma Inc. - 10, 11.8SCF PharmaSchurter AG - 10, 11.9SchurterSauter Feinmechanik GMBH - 10, 14Sauter Feinmechan…
Sauter vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Sauter's grants concentrate

Sauter Feinmechanik GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Co). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Sauter sits between Sanexen Environmental Services Inc. and Schurter AG.

Sauter's three-year grant acceleration

Sauter Feinmechanik GMBH shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Who files at Sauter's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Sauter holds 10 patents at rank #27,295, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Sauter

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,295 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23Q (Details)

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

Sauter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 29th percentile higher than 29% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sauter Feinmechanik GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 1 10.0%
2016 3 30.0%
2017 1 10.0%
2020 2 20.0%
2021 1 10.0%
2022 1 10.0%
2023 1 10.0%

Which technologies does Sauter Feinmechanik GMBH patent most?

Top 5 of 5 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

Sauter Feinmechanik GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Sauter Feinmechanik GMBH's lead technology class is B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Co), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23Q
  • Ranked #27,318 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Sauter Feinmechanik GMBH against Sanexen Environmental Services Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 29.0/100 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

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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

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.