Where does SGL Carbon SE rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SGL Carbon SE ranks #7,617 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 SGL Carbon SE hold?

SGL Carbon SE holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 64 technology areas.

What is SGL Carbon SE's Innovation Score?

SGL Carbon SE has an Innovation Score of 51.8 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SGL Carbon SE's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SGL Carbon SE's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 SGL Carbon SE's patents?

SGL Carbon SE's patents average 15.4 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 SGL Carbon SE 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

SGL Carbon SE

Q: What technology areas does SGL Carbon SE focus on?

SGL Carbon SE's top technology area is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone) with 16 patents, ranking #84 of 1,052 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 64 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 64 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: C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SGL ranks #7,617 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 64 technology areas.

#7,617
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7617 · Foreign Corporation #7,617 · 43 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,617/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Radiometer Medical APS
CPC-WIDE C04B · 64 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Radiometer Medical APS (±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 SGL’s 51.8 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 13.1 pts (25%) Velocity 4.4 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Continuous Composites · near

52
GKN Aerospace… · near

52
Imperial Innovations · near

52
SGL Carbon SE · this assignee

52
Sloan Valve · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SGL's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (top 11% 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 SGL?

Each dot is one of SGL’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). SGL’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How SGL's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, SGL Carbon SE received 18 grants versus 23 in 2015–2019 (-22% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 7 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 3. Lead class C04B accounts for 37.2% of the portfolio across 64 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Radiometer Medical APS (#7,611) and Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co., Ltd. (#7,619).

SGL's three-year grant acceleration

SGL Carbon SE shows 10 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.

Radiometer Medica…

43
Retractable

43
Roxtec AB

43
Rubicon Global Ho…

43
Shibuya

43
Showa Denko Packa…

43
Standard CAR Truck

43
Sumitomo Electric…

43
SGL Carbon SE ◀

43

What this shows SGL holds 43 patents at rank #7,615, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SGL

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,615 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SGL, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C04B (Lime), SGL ranks #84 of 1,052 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

GKN Aerospace Sweden AB 52 Sloan Valve Company 52 Imperial Innovations Limited 52 Continuous Composites Inc. 52

SGL's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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

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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SGL Carbon SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	14.0%
2016	3	7.0%
2017	3	7.0%
2018	4	9.3%
2019	7	16.3%
2020	5	11.6%
2021	3	7.0%
2022	3	7.0%
2023	4	9.3%
2024	3	7.0%
2025partial year	2	4.7%

Which technologies does SGL Carbon SE patent most?

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 16

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 11

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 11

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 8

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 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 6

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 4

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

B01D - Separation 4

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 4

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 3

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 3

Top 15 of 64 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

SGL Carbon SE's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SGL Carbon SE's lead technology class is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone), 37.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #7,617 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SGL Carbon SE against Radiometer Medical APS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 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.

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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