Endress+Hauser Now Boasts Over 9,000 Patents and Patents Pending
May 26, 2025
Endress+Hauser Now Boasts Over 9,000 Patents and Patents Pending
On average, Endress+Hauser filed a patent every working day last year. There were 285 first filings for inventions. The family-owned company was granted a total of 701 patents overall, a figure exceeding the number of first filings as inventions are ultimately registered with multiple patent offices. The Endress+Hauser Group’s portfolio of intellectual property rights now includes over 9,000 active patents and patents pending.
The Group’s spending on R&D in 2024 totaled over 275.6 million euros, or 7.4% of sales, and contributed to the company bringing 81 new products to market.
Endress+Hauser employees involved in a patent application are invited to the company’s annual Innovators’ Meeting.
This year’s Innovators’ Meeting was held recently at the home stadium of German Bundesliga football team SC Freiburg. “Innovation is a team sport,” Endress+Hauser’s director for IPR Dr Christine Koslowski told the 430 invited employees in a nod to the venue. And she had the numbers to back this up: “Ninety-one percent of all innovations generated in 2024 were a team effort.”
Among the awards presented at the Innovators’ Meeting, was the company’s first ever for eco-design and circular economy. “We want to make our product development even more sustainable,” explained Dr Andreas Mayr, chief operating officer at Endress+Hauser. “And that’s why we’re presenting awards for inventions that combine our measuring instruments’ exceptional functionality and reliability with a resource-saving and eco-friendly approach.”
The winning innovations included electronics and housing designs that enable significant energy and material savings and hence reduce the company’s carbon footprint.
About Endress+Hauser
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. Our products – sensors, instruments, systems and services for level, flow, pressure and temperature measurement as well as analytics and data acquisition – set standards in quality and technology. The company further supports its customers with automation engineering, logistics and IT services and solutions. Founded in 1953 by Georg H Endress and Ludwig Hauser, the Endress+Hauser Group has been solely owned by the Endress family since 1975.
Today, the Group is managed and coordinated by a holding company based in Reinach, Switzerland, employing 17,046 personnel across the globe at year end. In 2024, the Group generated net sales of 3.744 euros (C$5.80 billion). Endress+Hauser’s production centres in 12 countries meet customers’ needs and requirements quickly and effectively, while its dedicated sales centres and strong partner network guarantee competent worldwide support.
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The family owned Endress+Hauser Group, headquartered in Reinach, Switzerland, has decided to temporarily shift fulfillment of any new orders from Canada that previously would have been produced in the United States to its production centres in Europe wherever possible.
