Where does Sick AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sick AG ranks #1,300 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 Sick AG hold?

Sick AG holds 326 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 90 technology areas.

What is Sick AG's Innovation Score?

Sick AG has an Innovation Score of 61.6 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Sick AG's recent grant velocity is +7% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Sick AG's patents?

Sick 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 Sick 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

Sick AG

Q: What technology areas does Sick AG focus on?

Sick AG's top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 114 patents, ranking #50 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 90 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 326 granted patents across 90 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sick ranks #1,300 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 326 patents across 90 technology areas.

#1,300
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.6/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: +7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1300 · Foreign Corporation #1,300 · 326 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 326 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,300/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hangzhou Hikvision…
CPC-WIDE G01S · 90 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Sick’s 61.6 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 20.0 pts (33%) Velocity 7.9 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Volvo Construction… · near

62
Dupont · near

62
Icahn School OF… · near

62
R J Reynolds Tobacco · near

62
Sick · this assignee

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sick's Innovation Score is 61.6/100 (top 3% 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 Sick?

Each dot is one of Sick’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). Sick’s own 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Sick's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sick AG received 159 grants versus 149 in 2015–2019 (+7% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 39 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 27. Lead class G01S accounts for 35% of the portfolio across 90 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (#1,296) and Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (#1,304).

Sick's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sick AG moved from 85 to 101 grants (1.19x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #803. See the growth leaderboard.

Hangzhou Hikvisio…

326
Klemm + Sohn & KG

326
Littelfuse

326
Ningde Amperex Te…

326
Sumitomo Riko

326
University OF Con…

326
Sick ◀

326
Chugai Seiyaku

325
Continental Reife…

325

What this shows Sick holds 326 patents at rank #1,300, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sick

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,300 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sick, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Sick ranks #50 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company 62 Icahn School OF Medicine AT Mount Sinai 62 Dupont Electronics, Inc. 62 Volvo Construction Equipment AB 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.4 here).

Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd. 14.4 avg H. LEE Moffitt Cancer Center AND Research Institute Inc. 14.4 avg Semes Co., Ltd. 14.4 avg Powertech Technology Inc. 14.4 avg

Sick's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Sick AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	8.3%
2016	29	8.9%
2017	33	10.1%
2018	33	10.1%
2019	27	8.3%
2020	31	9.5%
2021	27	8.3%
2022	39	12.0%
2023	32	9.8%
2024	30	9.2%
2025partial year	18	5.5%

Which technologies does Sick AG patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 114

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 67

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 48

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 43

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 38

F16P - Safety Devices IN GENERAL; ; Safety Devices FOR Presses 33

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 33

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 30

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 30

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 29

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 28

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 21

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 13

Top 15 of 90 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

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

Sick AG's lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 35% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #1,300 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sick AG against Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.6/100 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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