Where does Schleuniger AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Schleuniger AG ranks #7,616 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 Schleuniger AG hold?

Schleuniger AG holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Schleuniger AG's Innovation Score?

Schleuniger AG has an Innovation Score of 42.0 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Schleuniger AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Schleuniger AG's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Schleuniger AG's patents?

Schleuniger AG's patents average 14.4 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 Schleuniger AG 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

Schleuniger AG

Q: What technology areas does Schleuniger AG focus on?

Schleuniger AG's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 18 patents, ranking #178 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Schleuniger ranks #7,616 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 23 technology areas.

#7,616
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (42.0/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7616 · Foreign Corporation #7,616 · 43 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,616/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saverglass
CPC-FOCUS H01R · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saverglass (±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 Schleuniger’s 42.0 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 13.1 pts (31%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 17.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bourgault Industries · near

42
Fresenius Vial SAS · near

42
Keeson Technology · near

42
Miracor Medical · near

42
Schleuniger · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Schleuniger's Innovation Score is 42.0/100 (top 32% 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 Schleuniger?

Each dot is one of Schleuniger’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). Schleuniger’s own 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Schleuniger's grants concentrate

Schleuniger AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 41.9% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Schleuniger sits between Standard CAR Truck Company and Subtron Technology Co., Ltd..

Schleuniger's three-year grant acceleration

Schleuniger AG shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Standard CAR Truck

43
Sumitomo Electric…

43
Suss Microtec Lit…

43
Saverglass

43
Shenzhen Oceanwin…

43
Siltectra

43
Silver Peak Syste…

43
Subtron Technology

43
Schleuniger ◀

43

What this shows Schleuniger holds 43 patents at rank #7,622, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Schleuniger

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,622 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Schleuniger, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Schleuniger ranks #178 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Bourgault Industries Ltd. 42 Fresenius Vial SAS 42 Keeson Technology Corporation Limited 42 Miracor Medical SA 42

Schleuniger's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Schleuniger AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.7%
2016	7	16.3%
2017	9	20.9%
2018	4	9.3%
2019	7	16.3%
2020	6	14.0%
2021	1	2.3%
2022	1	2.3%
2023	2	4.7%
2024	4	9.3%

Which technologies does Schleuniger AG patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 18

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 7

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 7

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; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 4

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

B21F - Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire 3

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 2

Top 15 of 23 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

Schleuniger AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Schleuniger AG's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 41.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #7,616 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Schleuniger AG against Standard CAR Truck Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.0/100 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

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