Where does Swiss Krono Tec AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Swiss Krono Tec AG ranks #8,932 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 Swiss Krono Tec AG hold?

Swiss Krono Tec AG holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Swiss Krono Tec AG's Innovation Score?

Swiss Krono Tec AG has an Innovation Score of 49.3 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Swiss Krono Tec AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Swiss Krono Tec AG's recent grant velocity is +167% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Swiss Krono Tec AG's patents?

Swiss Krono Tec AG's patents average 17.4 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 Swiss Krono Tec 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

Swiss Krono Tec AG

Q: What technology areas does Swiss Krono Tec AG focus on?

Swiss Krono Tec AG's top technology area is B27N (Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material) with 20 patents. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 39 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: B27N (Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Swiss ranks #8,932 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 39 technology areas.

#8,932
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.3/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +167%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8932 · Foreign Corporation #8,932 · 36 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,932/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Safran Seats GB
CPC-FOCUS B27N · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +167% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safran Seats GB Limited (±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
Nissin Electric · near

49
Seereal · near

49
Seoul National… · near

49
Swiss Krono Tec · this assignee

49
Woodwelding · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Swiss's Innovation Score is 49.3/100 (top 15% 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 Swiss's grants concentrate

Swiss Krono Tec AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under B27N (Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Swiss sits between Sinox Company Ltd. and Shanghai Neusoft Medical Technology Co., Ltd..

Swiss's three-year grant acceleration

Swiss Krono Tec AG shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Sinox

36
SKF Lubrication S…

36
Sogang University…

36
South China Norma…

36
Safran Seats GB

36
Security People

36
Sense Labs

36
Shanghai Neusoft…

36
Swiss Krono Tec ◀

36

What this shows Swiss holds 36 patents at rank #8,920, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Swiss

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,920 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B27N (Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Swiss, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Nissin Electric Co., Ltd. 49 Seoul National University Hospital 49 Seereal Technologies S.A. 49 Woodwelding AG 49

Swiss's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Swiss Krono Tec AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	8.3%
2018	2	5.6%
2019	4	11.1%
2020	7	19.4%
2021	6	16.7%
2022	2	5.6%
2023	1	2.8%
2024	8	22.2%
2025partial year	3	8.3%

Which technologies does Swiss Krono Tec AG patent most?

B27N - Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material 20

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

B27K - Processes, Apparatus OR Selection OF Substances FOR Impregnating, Staining, Dyeing, Bleaching OF Wood OR Similar Materials, OR Treating OF Wood OR Similar Materials With Permeant Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Chemical OR Physical Treatment OF Cork, Cane, Reed, Straw OR Similar Materials 6

B30B - Presses IN General 5

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 5

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

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 5

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

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 3

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 3

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 3

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

Top 15 of 39 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,932

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Swiss Krono Tec AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Swiss Krono Tec AG's lead technology class is B27N (Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B27N
Ranked #8,932 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Swiss Krono Tec AG against Sinox Company Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.3/100 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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