Where does Sulzer Management AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sulzer Management AG ranks #2,281 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 Sulzer Management AG hold?

Sulzer Management AG holds 172 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 68 technology areas.

What is Sulzer Management AG's Innovation Score?

Sulzer Management AG has an Innovation Score of 59.0 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sulzer Management AG focus on?

Sulzer Management AG's top technology area is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps) with 89 patents, ranking #28 of 1,034 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 68 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sulzer Management AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sulzer Management AG's recent grant velocity is +148% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sulzer Management AG's patents?

Sulzer Management AG's patents average 13.3 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 Sulzer Management 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

Sulzer Management AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 172 granted patents across 68 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: F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sulzer ranks #2,281 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 172 patents across 68 technology areas.

#2,281
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: +148%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2281 · Foreign Corporation #2,281 · 172 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 172 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,281/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Invista North…
CPC-WIDE F04D · 68 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +148% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Invista North America S.a.r.l. (±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 Sulzer’s 59.0 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 17.8 pts (30%) Velocity 8.2 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
A9 com · near

59
BOE Mled Technology · near

59
Gracenote · near

59
Microjet Technology · near

59
Sulzer Management · this assignee

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sulzer's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (top 4% 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 Sulzer?

Each dot is one of Sulzer’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). Sulzer’s own 13.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Sulzer's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sulzer Management AG received 114 grants versus 46 in 2015–2019 (+148% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 30 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class F04D accounts for 51.7% of the portfolio across 68 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Invista North America S.a.r.l. (#2,277) and Caterpillar Sarl (#2,285).

Sulzer's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sulzer Management AG moved from 57 to 70 grants (1.23x 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 #740. See the growth leaderboard.

Invista North Ame…

172
M-I L L C

172
Prime Planet Ener…

172
Rite-hite Holding

172
Unger Marketing I…

172
Xiamen Solex High…

172
Sulzer Management ◀

172
A10 Networks Inco…

171
Caterpillar Sarl

171

What this shows Sulzer holds 172 patents at rank #2,281, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sulzer

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,281 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sulzer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), Sulzer ranks #28 of 1,034 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Microjet Technology Co., Ltd. 59 A9.com, Inc. 59 Gracenote, Inc. 59 BOE Mled Technology Co., Ltd. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG 13.3 avg Putzmeister Engineering GmbH 13.3 avg Raytheon Canada Limited 13.3 avg R. Stahl SCHALTGERÄTE GMBH 13.3 avg

Sulzer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Sulzer Management AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	1.7%
2016	10	5.8%
2017	11	6.4%
2018	9	5.2%
2019	13	7.6%
2020	23	13.4%
2021	21	12.2%
2022	20	11.6%
2023	20	11.6%
2024	30	17.4%
2025partial year	12	7.0%

Which technologies does Sulzer Management AG patent most?

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 89

B01D - Separation 26

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 25

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 18

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 15

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 14

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 11

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 10

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 10

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 10

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 10

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 7

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 6

Top 15 of 68 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Sulzer Management AG's lead technology class is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), 51.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04D
Ranked #2,281 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sulzer Management AG against Invista North America S.a.r.l., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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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