Where does Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG ranks #10,223 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 Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 37.1 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene) with 25 patents, ranking #33 of 546 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -55% 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 Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 11.4 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 Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter 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

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 21 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: A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vita ranks #10,223 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 21 technology areas.

#10,223
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (37.1/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10223 · Foreign Corporation #10,223 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,223/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ValiMail
CPC-FOCUS A61C · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ValiMail 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 Vita’s 37.1 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 12.0 pts (32%) Velocity 2.1 pts (6%) Breadth 16.2 pts (44%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
PSK · near

37
Tridonic Jennersdorf · near

37
TriQuint Semiconductor · near

37
Vita Zahnfabrik H… · this assignee

37
Wagic · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vita's Innovation Score is 37.1/100 (top 45% 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 Vita?

Each dot is one of Vita’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). Vita’s own 11.4 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.

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

Where Vita's grants concentrate

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 80.6% of grants classified under A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Vita sits between ValiMail Inc. and Wuhan BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd..

Vita's three-year grant acceleration

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Valimail

31
Velcro IP Holdings

31
Veroscience

31
Visy R & D Pty

31
Volvik

31
Vulcan

31
Wonik IPS

31
Wuhan BOE Optoele…

31
Vita Zahnfabrik H… ◀

31

What this shows Vita holds 31 patents at rank #10,224, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vita

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,224 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61C (Dentistry)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vita, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61C (Dentistry), Vita ranks #33 of 546 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Wagic, Inc. 37 TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. 37 PSK Inc. 37 Tridonic Jennersdorf GmbH 37

Vita's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% 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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Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	12.9%
2016	1	3.2%
2017	4	12.9%
2018	3	9.7%
2019	8	25.8%
2020	1	3.2%
2021	4	12.9%
2022	1	3.2%
2023	3	9.7%
2025partial year	2	6.5%

Which technologies does Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 25

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 16

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 11

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 11

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 9

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 8

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 3

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

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 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene), 80.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61C
Ranked #10,223 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG against ValiMail Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.1/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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