Where does Wacker Chemie AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wacker Chemie AG ranks #983 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 Wacker Chemie AG hold?

Wacker Chemie AG holds 448 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 122 technology areas.

What is Wacker Chemie AG's Innovation Score?

Wacker Chemie AG has an Innovation Score of 58.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Wacker Chemie AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wacker Chemie AG's recent grant velocity is -11% 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 Wacker Chemie AG's patents?

Wacker Chemie AG's patents average 13.1 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 Wacker Chemie AG 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

Wacker Chemie AG

Q: What technology areas does Wacker Chemie AG focus on?

Wacker Chemie AG's top technology area is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds) with 132 patents. Grants appear in 122 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 448 granted patents across 122 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: C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wacker ranks #983 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 448 patents across 122 technology areas.

#983
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R983 · Foreign Corporation #983 · 448 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 448 grants
TOP-DECILE #983/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Richtek Technology
CPC-WIDE C08G · 122 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Richtek Technology Corporation (±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
Colorado School of… · near

58
Five AI · near

58
Koenig & Bauer · near

58
Nanjing Agricultural… · near

58
Wacker Chemie · this assignee

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wacker's Innovation Score is 58.1/100 (top 5% 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.

How Wacker's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Wacker Chemie AG received 201 grants versus 226 in 2015–2019 (-11% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 64 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 23. Lead class C08G accounts for 29.5% of the portfolio across 122 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (#979) and RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc. (#987).

Wacker's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Wacker Chemie AG moved from 150 to 93 grants (0.62x 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 #2,390. See the growth leaderboard.

Rosemount Aerospa…

449
THE Coca-cola

449
Richtek Technology

448
Schneider Electri…

448
Yanmar Holdings

448
Wacker Chemie ◀

448
Universal City St…

447
Ecole Polytechniq…

446
RAI Strategic Hol…

446

What this shows Wacker holds 448 patents at rank #983, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wacker

By rank, the assignees closest to #983 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wacker, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Koenig & Bauer AG 58 Colorado School of Mines 58 Nanjing Agricultural University 58 Five AI Limited 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Deutsche Telekom AG 13.1 avg Peloton Interactive, Inc. 13.1 avg Semiconductor Manufacturing (Beijing) International Corporation 13.1 avg Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH 13.1 avg

Wacker's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Wacker Chemie AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	56	12.5%
2016	39	8.7%
2017	41	9.2%
2018	48	10.7%
2019	42	9.4%
2020	64	14.3%
2021	44	9.8%
2022	29	6.5%
2023	23	5.1%
2024	41	9.2%
2025partial year	21	4.7%

Which technologies does Wacker Chemie AG patent most?

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 132

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 120

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 116

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 82

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 68

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 60

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 56

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 46

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 42

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 39

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 39

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 33

B01D - Separation 31

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 30

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 24

Top 15 of 122 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#983

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.1 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

Wacker Chemie AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wacker Chemie AG's lead technology class is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds), 29.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08G
Ranked #983 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wacker Chemie AG against Rosemount Aerospace Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.1/100 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

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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