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 50,000 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 (top 53% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Q: 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. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

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 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 9 technology areas.

#23,418
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 53%
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 #23,418/50,000
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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Smiths Heimann SAS · this assignee

34
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Smiths's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (top 53% 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.

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.

Sinher Technology

12
Sipnose

12
Smart Planet

12
Smartsens Technol…

12
Software Motor

12
Soligenix

12
Solsten

12
Solta Medical Ire…

12
Smiths Heimann SAS ◀

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 Top 53% higher than 47% of 50,000 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

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,418

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

34.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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