Where does UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn ranks #27,734 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 UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn hold?

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn's Innovation Score?

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn has an Innovation Score of 37.2 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn's recent grant velocity is +150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn's patents?

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn's patents average 12.1 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 UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn 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

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn

Q: What technology areas does UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn focus on?

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn's top technology area is C01B (Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c) with 3 patents, ranking #704 of 1,689 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: C01B (Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Universität ranks #27,734 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 33 technology areas.

#27,734
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.2/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: +150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27734 · Foreign Corporation #27,734 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,734/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg
CPC-FOCUS C01B · 33 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg (±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 Universität’s 37.2 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 8.3 pts (22%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 20.3 pts (55%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
James C White · near

37
Kali Care · near

37
Kerflummox Holdings · near

37
ParkerVision · near

37
UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Universität's Innovation Score is 37.2/100 (top 44% 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 Universität?

Each dot is one of Universität’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). Universität’s own 12.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Universität's grants concentrate

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 30% of grants classified under C01B (Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Universität sits between Universite D'avignon ET DES Pays DE Vaucluse and Usalco, LLC.

Universität's three-year grant acceleration

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn shows 1 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.

Universite D'avig…

10
Universite DE Cae…

10
University OF Tex…

10
UniversitÄT Hambu…

10
Unlimited Water S…

10
Upstart Power

10
Ur24technology

10
Usalco

10
UniversitÄT Pader… ◀

10

What this shows UNIVERSITÄT holds 10 patents at rank #27,712, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near UNIVERSITÄT

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,712 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C01B (Non-metallic Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for UNIVERSITÄT, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C01B (Non-metallic Elements), UNIVERSITÄT ranks #704 of 1,689 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

James C. White Company, Inc. 37 Kerflummox Holdings, LLC 37 Kali Care, Inc. 37 ParkerVision, Inc. 37

Universität's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2021	3	30.0%
2023	1	10.0%
2025partial year	3	30.0%

Which technologies does UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn patent most?

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 2

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 1

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

H03F - Amplifiers 1

H04B - Transmission 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 1

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

C07K - Peptides 1

Top 15 of 33 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

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn's lead technology class is C01B (Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c), 30% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C01B
Ranked #27,734 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn against Universite D'avignon ET DES Pays DE Vaucluse, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.2/100 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

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