Where does Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG ranks #19,202 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 Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 34.4 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 15.7 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 Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG 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

Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 10 patents, ranking #402 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 19 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Surface ranks #19,202 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 19 technology areas.

#19,202
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.4/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19202 · Foreign Corporation #19,202 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,202/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SafeOp Surgical
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SafeOp Surgical, 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 Surface’s 34.4 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 9.6 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.4 pts (45%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cambridge Sound… · near

34
Kason Industries · near

34
Surface & KG · this assignee

34
Harting · near

34
Netsuite · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Surface's Innovation Score is 34.4/100 (48th 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 Surface?

Each dot is one of Surface’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). Surface’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Surface's grants concentrate

Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Surface sits between Statens Serum Institut and SafeOp Surgical, Inc..

Statens Serum Ins…

15
Steelcloud

15
Sumida Components…

15
Summer Infant (US…

15
Survitec Group

15
Suzhou Centec Com…

15
Swift Engineering

15
Safeop Surgical

15
Surface & KG ◀

15

What this shows Surface holds 15 patents at rank #19,140, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Surface

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,140 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Surface, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B32B (Layered Products), Surface ranks #402 of 3,088 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Kason Industries, Inc. 34 Netsuite Inc. 34 Harting Electronics GmbH 34 Cambridge Sound Management, Inc. 34

Surface's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 48th percentile higher than 48% 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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Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	13.3%
2016	1	6.7%
2018	2	13.3%
2019	1	6.7%
2020	4	26.7%
2021	1	6.7%
2025partial year	4	26.7%

Which technologies does Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 10

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 9

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 2

B44F - Special Designs OR Pictures 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

B27M - Working OF Wood NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B27b - B27L; Manufacture OF Specific Wooden Articles 1

B27F - Dovetailed WORK; TENONS; Slotting Machines FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Nailing OR Stapling Machines 1

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #19,202 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Surface Technologies GMBH & Co. KG against Statens Serum Institut, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.4/100 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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