Where does UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg ranks #27,733 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 Hamburg hold?

UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg's Innovation Score?

UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg has an Innovation Score of 47.3 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg's recent grant velocity is +200% 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 Hamburg's patents?

UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg's patents average 16.4 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 Hamburg 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 Hamburg

Q: What technology areas does UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg focus on?

UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Universität ranks #27,733 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 20 technology areas.

#27,733
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.3/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27733 · Foreign Corporation #27,733 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,733/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Universitaet ZU…
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Universitaet ZU Luebeck (±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
UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Universität's Innovation Score is 47.3/100 (top 19% 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.

Where Universität's grants concentrate

UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Universität sits between Universitaet ZU Luebeck and Ur24technology, Inc..

Universität's three-year grant acceleration

UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Universitaet ZU L…

10
Universite D'avig…

10
Universite DE Cae…

10
University OF Tex…

10
UniversitÄT Pader…

10
Unlimited Water S…

10
Upstart Power

10
Ur24technology

10
UniversitÄT Hambu… ◀

10

What this shows UNIVERSITÄT holds 10 patents at rank #27,711, 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 #27,711 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Universität's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	20.0%
2020	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2023	2	20.0%
2024	1	10.0%
2025partial year	2	20.0%

Which technologies does UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 3

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

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 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 1

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 1

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#27,733

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.3 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

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

UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #27,733 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UNIVERSITÄT Hamburg against Universitaet ZU Luebeck, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.3/100 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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