Where does tesa SE rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), tesa SE ranks #1,783 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 tesa SE hold?

tesa SE holds 229 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is tesa SE's Innovation Score?

tesa SE has an Innovation Score of 56.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is tesa SE's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

tesa SE's recent grant velocity is -24% 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 tesa SE's patents?

tesa SE's patents average 14.0 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 tesa SE 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

tesa SE

Q: What technology areas does tesa SE focus on?

tesa SE's top technology area is C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives) with 184 patents. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 229 granted patents across 80 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: C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, tesa ranks #1,783 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 229 patents across 80 technology areas.

#1,783
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.0/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1783 · Foreign Corporation #1,783 · 229 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 229 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,783/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Intercontinental…
CPC-WIDE C09J · 80 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intercontinental Great Brands LLC (±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
Agco · near

56
Haldor TOPSØE A/S · near

56
Mitsumi Electric · near

56
Soletanche Freyssinet · near

56
tesa SE · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows tesa's Innovation Score is 56.0/100 (top 6% 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.

How tesa's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, tesa SE received 93 grants versus 122 in 2015–2019 (-24% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 33 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 6. Lead class C09J accounts for 80.3% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Intercontinental Great Brands LLC (#1,780) and Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG (#1,788).

tesa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, tesa SE moved from 80 to 46 grants (0.57x 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 #2,505. See the growth leaderboard.

Intercontinental…

229
Siemens Industry…

229
Sorbonne Universi…

229
Universite De Mon…

229
tesa SE ◀

229
Battelle Energy A…

228
Micro Motion

228
Tachi-s

228
Ascensia Diabetes…

227

What this shows tesa holds 229 patents at rank #1,784, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near tesa

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,784 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09J (Adhesives)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Haldor TOPSØE A/S 56 Agco Corporation 56 Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. 56 Soletanche Freyssinet 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.0 here).

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. 14.0 avg Valmet Technologies Oy 14.0 avg Spraying Systems Co. 14.0 avg Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC 14.0 avg

tesa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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tesa SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	7.0%
2016	22	9.6%
2017	29	12.7%
2018	22	9.6%
2019	33	14.4%
2020	29	12.7%
2021	18	7.9%
2022	16	7.0%
2023	6	2.6%
2024	24	10.5%
2025partial year	14	6.1%

Which technologies does tesa SE patent most?

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 184

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 64

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 63

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 58

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 52

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 37

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 37

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 28

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 19

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 15

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 15

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 15

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 13

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 11

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 11

Top 15 of 80 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,783

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.0 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

tesa SE's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

tesa SE's lead technology class is C09J (ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives), 80.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09J
Ranked #1,783 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare tesa SE against Intercontinental Great Brands LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.0/100 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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