Where does Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG ranks #14,339 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 Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 38.5 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -89% 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 Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 18.7 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 Treofan Germany 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

Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is 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) with 13 patents, ranking #461 of 4,378 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Treofan ranks #14,339 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 22 technology areas.

#14,339
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.5/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -89%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14339 · Foreign Corporation #14,339 · 21 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,339/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tissot
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 22 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -89% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tissot SA (±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 Treofan’s 38.5 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 10.7 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 16.6 pts (43%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Treofan Germany & KG · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Treofan's Innovation Score is 38.5/100 (top 41% 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 Treofan?

Each dot is one of Treofan’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). Treofan’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Treofan's grants concentrate

Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 61.9% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Treofan sits between Tissot SA and Truinject Corp..

Tissot

21
Titeflex

21
Topcon Medical La…

21
Tractor Supply

21
Trieye

21
Triastek

21
Trinity

21
Truinject

21
Treofan Germany &… ◀

21

What this shows Treofan holds 21 patents at rank #14,342, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Treofan

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,342 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Treofan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	42.9%
2016	2	9.5%
2017	2	9.5%
2018	4	19.0%
2019	2	9.5%
2020	1	4.8%
2021	1	4.8%

Which technologies does Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

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 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 13

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 11

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 9

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 8

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 7

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 6

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 3

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

Top 15 of 22 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

Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is 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), 61.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #14,339 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG against Tissot SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.5/100 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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