Where does Smiths Heimann SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Smiths Heimann SAS ranks #23,418 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 SAS hold?

Smiths Heimann SAS holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2023, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Smiths Heimann SAS's Innovation Score?

Smiths Heimann SAS has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (47th percentile 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 SAS focus on?

Smiths Heimann SAS's top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 8 patents, ranking #122 of 835 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

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

Smiths Heimann SAS's recent grant velocity is +400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Smiths Heimann SAS's patents?

Smiths Heimann SAS's patents average 18.4 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 Smiths Heimann SAS 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 SAS

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2023. 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 #23,418 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 9 technology areas.

#23,418
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23418 · Foreign Corporation #23,418 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,418/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sinher Technology
CPC-NARROW G01V · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sinher Technology Inc. (±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 34.3 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 8.9 pts (26%) Velocity 3.8 pts (11%) Breadth 10.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Smiths Heimann SAS · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smiths's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (47th percentile 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 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 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 SAS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Smiths sits between Sinher Technology Inc. and Solta Medical Ireland Limited.

Smiths's three-year grant acceleration

Smiths Heimann SAS shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

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12

What this shows Smiths holds 12 patents at rank #23,450, 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 #23,450 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)

34 47th percentile higher than 47% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Smiths Heimann SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	8.3%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	2	16.7%
2021	4	33.3%
2022	3	25.0%
2023	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Smiths Heimann SAS patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 3

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

H05G - X-ray Technique 2

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 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

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

Smiths Heimann SAS's lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #23,418 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Smiths Heimann SAS against Sinher Technology Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.3/100 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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