Where does Umicore AG & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Umicore AG & Co. KG ranks #1,689 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 Umicore AG & Co. KG hold?

Umicore AG & Co. KG holds 244 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Umicore AG & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Umicore AG & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 59.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Umicore AG & Co. KG focus on?

Umicore AG & Co. KG's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 174 patents, ranking #19 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

Is Umicore AG & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Umicore AG & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +19% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Umicore AG & Co. KG's patents?

Umicore AG & Co. KG's patents average 17.1 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 Umicore AG & 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

Umicore AG & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 244 granted patents across 58 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Umicore ranks #1,689 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 244 patents across 58 technology areas.

#1,689
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.5/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1689 · Foreign Corporation #1,689 · 244 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 244 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,689/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Icahn School OF…
CPC-WIDE B01J · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Icahn School OF Medicine AT Mount Sinai (±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 Umicore’s 59.5 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 19.0 pts (32%) Velocity 5.3 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beihang University · near

60
Beth Israel… · near

60
Minebea Mitsumi · near

60
Umicore & KG · this assignee

60
University of Limerick · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Umicore's Innovation Score is 59.5/100 (top 4% 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 Umicore?

Each dot is one of Umicore’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). Umicore’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Umicore's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Umicore AG & Co. KG received 123 grants versus 103 in 2015–2019 (+19% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 33 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 11. Lead class B01J accounts for 71.3% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Icahn School OF Medicine AT Mount Sinai (#1,685) and Delphi Technologies IP Limited (#1,693).

Umicore's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Umicore AG & Co. KG moved from 82 to 65 grants (0.79x 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 #1,864. See the growth leaderboard.

Icahn School OF M…

244
LG Hausys

244
Prysmian S p A

244
Spreadtrum Commun…

244
United Arab Emira…

244
Walgreen

244
Umicore & KG ◀

244
Anpec

243
Delphi IP

243

What this shows Umicore holds 244 patents at rank #1,689, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Umicore

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,689 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Umicore, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), Umicore ranks #19 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Minebea Mitsumi Inc. 60 University of Limerick 60 Beihang University 60 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Stryker European Holdings, LLC 17.1 avg Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. 17.1 avg Pilkington Group Limited 17.1 avg Carefusion 303, Inc. 17.1 avg

Umicore's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Umicore AG & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	7.8%
2016	22	9.0%
2017	21	8.6%
2018	17	7.0%
2019	24	9.8%
2020	25	10.2%
2021	33	13.5%
2022	29	11.9%
2023	25	10.2%
2024	11	4.5%
2025partial year	18	7.4%

Which technologies does Umicore AG & Co. KG patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 174

B01D - Separation 137

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 131

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 105

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 53

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 52

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 25

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 13

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 12

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 12

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 12

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 9

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 6

Top 15 of 58 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

Umicore AG & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Umicore AG & Co. KG's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 71.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #1,689 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Umicore AG & Co. KG against Icahn School OF Medicine AT Mount Sinai, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.5/100 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

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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

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