Where does VON Ardenne GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), VON Ardenne GMBH ranks #22,013 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 VON Ardenne GMBH hold?

VON Ardenne GMBH holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is VON Ardenne GMBH's Innovation Score?

VON Ardenne GMBH has an Innovation Score of 28.6 out of 100 (28th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is VON Ardenne GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

VON Ardenne GMBH's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 VON Ardenne GMBH's patents?

VON Ardenne GMBH's patents average 12.0 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 VON Ardenne GMBH 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

VON Ardenne GMBH

Q: What technology areas does VON Ardenne GMBH focus on?

VON Ardenne GMBH's top technology area is 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) with 10 patents, ranking #255 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: 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 Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, VON ranks #22,013 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 12 technology areas.

#22,013
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 28th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.6/100): 12.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22013 · Foreign Corporation #22,013 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #22,013/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vaisala
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vaisala, 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 VON’s 28.6 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 9.1 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 12.2 pts (43%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Smic New Technology… · near

29
VON Ardenne · this assignee

29
Beijing Edifier… · near

29
Nectar International · near

29
Schwan-stabilo… · near

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows VON's Innovation Score is 28.6/100 (28th percentile 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 VON?

Each dot is one of VON’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). VON’s own 12.0 claims/patent is at or below the 12.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where VON's grants concentrate

VON Ardenne GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 76.9% of grants classified under 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 Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, VON sits between VIA Mechanics, Ltd. and Vaisala, Inc..

VIA Mechanics

13
Vicis

13
Virtual Marketing

13
Voltafield Techno…

13
VS Vereinigte Spe…

13
Vtouch

13
Vubiq Networks

13
Vaisala

13
VON Ardenne ◀

13

What this shows VON holds 13 patents at rank #21,993, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near VON

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,993 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for VON, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), VON ranks #255 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (29 here).

Smic New Technology Research and Development (Shanghai) Corporation 29 Schwan-stabilo Cosmetic GMBH & Co. KG 29 Beijing Edifier Technology Co., Ltd 29 Nectar International Co., Ltd 29

VON's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 28th percentile higher than 28% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

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

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VON Ardenne GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	61.5%
2016	3	23.1%
2017	2	15.4%

Which technologies does VON Ardenne GMBH patent most?

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 10

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 3

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 2

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 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

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 1

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 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 1

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

Top 12 of 12 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

VON Ardenne GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

VON Ardenne GMBH's lead technology class is 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 Evap), 76.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #22,013 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare VON Ardenne GMBH against VIA Mechanics, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.6/100 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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