Where does SiCrystal GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SiCrystal GMBH ranks #21,773 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 SiCrystal GMBH hold?

SiCrystal GMBH holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is SiCrystal GMBH's Innovation Score?

SiCrystal GMBH has an Innovation Score of 46.5 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SiCrystal GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SiCrystal GMBH's recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for SiCrystal GMBH's patents?

SiCrystal GMBH's patents average 11.3 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 SiCrystal GMBH 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

SiCrystal GMBH

Q: What technology areas does SiCrystal GMBH focus on?

SiCrystal GMBH's top technology area is C30B (Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI) with 13 patents, ranking #45 of 414 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C30B (Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrys).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sicrystal ranks #21,773 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 9 technology areas.

#21,773
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.5/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21773 · Foreign Corporation #21,773 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,773/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen Targetever…
CPC-NARROW C30B · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Targetever 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 Sicrystal’s 46.5 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 9.1 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (43%) Breadth 10.6 pts (23%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
SiCrystal · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sicrystal's Innovation Score is 46.5/100 (top 21% 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 Sicrystal?

Each dot is one of Sicrystal’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). Sicrystal’s own 11.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 2.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sicrystal's grants concentrate

SiCrystal GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under C30B (Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrys). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Sicrystal sits between Shenzhen Targetever Technology Co., Ltd and Signature Therapeutics, Inc..

Sicrystal's three-year grant acceleration

SiCrystal GMBH shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Shenzhen Targetev…

13
Shenzhen Yuyiyuan…

13
Shenzhen Zhuopu D…

13
Shriro Australia…

13
Siden

13
Sienna Biopharmac…

13
Sigma Powertain

13
Signature Therape…

13
Sicrystal ◀

13

What this shows SiCrystal holds 13 patents at rank #21,818, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SiCrystal

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,818 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C30B (Single-crystal Growth)

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

Sicrystal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 21% higher than 79% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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SiCrystal GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	7.7%
2017	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	4	30.8%
2023	3	23.1%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does SiCrystal GMBH patent most?

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 2

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

B28D - Working Stone OR Stone-like Materials 1

Top 9 of 9 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

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

SiCrystal GMBH's lead technology class is C30B (Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrys), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C30B
Ranked #21,773 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SiCrystal GMBH against Shenzhen Targetever Technology Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.5/100 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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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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