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Tomra Sorting GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 8 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: B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tomra ranks #16,448 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 8 technology areas.

#16,448
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.0/100)
13.7
avg claims per patent
+150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16448 · Foreign Corporation #16,448 · 18 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
  • MID-PACK #16,448/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH The Population Council
  • CPC-NARROW B07C · 8 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 35.0/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-SURGE +150% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Population Council, 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 Tomra’s 35.0 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Tomra

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Tomra's Innovation Score is 35.0/100 (top 50% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Tomra?

Each dot is one of Tomra’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). Tomra’s own 13.7 claims/patent is at or below the 15.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Tomra vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 17.917.91818.1 010203040 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent The Population Council, Inc. - 18, 14.33The Population Co…The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body - 18, 18.72The Regents of th…Third Pole, Inc. - 18, 21Third PoleTixTrack, Inc. - 18, 10.5TixtrackToshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. - 18, 15.56Toshiba America B…Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB - 18, 10.06Toyota Material H…Traina Interactive Corp. - 18, 34.83Traina InteractiveTranslate Bio MA, Inc. - 18, 24.72Translate Bio MATomra Sorting GmbH - 18, 13.67Tomra Sorting
Tomra vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Tomra's grants concentrate

Tomra Sorting GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Tomra sits between The Population Council, Inc. and Translate Bio MA, Inc..

Tomra's three-year grant acceleration

Tomra Sorting GmbH shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Who files at Tomra's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Tomra holds 18 patents at rank #16,455, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Tomra

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,455 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B07C (Postal Sorting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tomra, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B07C (Postal Sorting), Tomra ranks #20 of 282 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Tata Communications (America) Inc. 35 Microsensor Labs, LLC 35 Acbel Polytech Inc. 35 Asian Power Devices Inc. 35

Tomra's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Tomra Sorting GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 1 5.6%
2016 1 5.6%
2017 1 5.6%
2018 1 5.6%
2020 1 5.6%
2021 4 22.2%
2023 2 11.1%
2024 3 16.7%
2025partial year 4 22.2%

Which technologies does Tomra Sorting GmbH patent most?

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Tomra Sorting GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Tomra Sorting GmbH's lead technology class is B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B07C
  • Ranked #16,448 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Tomra Sorting GmbH against The Population Council, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 35.0/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.