Where does Smiths Heimann GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Smiths Heimann GMBH ranks #13,695 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 Smiths Heimann GMBH hold?

Smiths Heimann GMBH holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Smiths Heimann GMBH's Innovation Score?

Smiths Heimann GMBH has an Innovation Score of 38.1 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Smiths Heimann GMBH focus on?

Smiths Heimann GMBH's top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 13 patents, ranking #81 of 835 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Smiths Heimann GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Smiths Heimann GMBH's recent grant velocity is -78% 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 Smiths Heimann GMBH's patents?

Smiths Heimann GMBH's patents average 16.7 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 Smiths Heimann 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

Smiths Heimann GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Smiths ranks #13,695 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 18 technology areas.

#13,695
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.1/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -78%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13695 · Foreign Corporation #13,695 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,695/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Signify North America
CPC-FOCUS G01V · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -78% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Signify North America Corporation (±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 Smiths’s 38.1 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 10.8 pts (28%) Velocity 2.2 pts (6%) Breadth 15.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Smiths Heimann · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smiths's Innovation Score is 38.1/100 (top 42% 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 Smiths?

Each dot is one of Smiths’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). Smiths’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Smiths's grants concentrate

Smiths Heimann GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 59.1% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Smiths sits between Signify North America Corporation and Solid State Storage Technology Corporation.

Smiths's three-year grant acceleration

Smiths Heimann GMBH shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Signify North Ame…

22
SK Lubricants

22
Smart

22
Smartlabs

22
SMS Meer

22
Soken Chemical &…

22
Soko Kagaku

22
Solid State Stora…

22
Smiths Heimann ◀

22

What this shows Smiths holds 22 patents at rank #13,675, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Smiths

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,675 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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

Smiths's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Smiths Heimann GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	36.4%
2016	2	9.1%
2018	4	18.2%
2019	4	18.2%
2020	2	9.1%
2022	2	9.1%

Which technologies does Smiths Heimann GMBH patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 13

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H05G - X-ray Technique 2

G21F - Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

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 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 1

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 1

Top 15 of 18 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

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

Smiths Heimann GMBH's lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 59.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #13,695 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Smiths Heimann GMBH against Signify North America Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.1/100 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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