Where does Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG ranks #1,049 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 Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG hold?

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG holds 412 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 106 technology areas.

What is Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 59.3 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -9% 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 Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG's patents?

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG's patents average 13.9 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 Andreas Stihl AG & 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

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG focus on?

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG's top technology area is B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 91 patents, ranking #6 of 229 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 106 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 412 granted patents across 106 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: B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Andreas ranks #1,049 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 412 patents across 106 technology areas.

#1,049
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.3/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1049 · Foreign Corporation #1,049 · 412 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 412 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,049/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Japan Tobacco
CPC-WIDE B25F · 106 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -9% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Japan Tobacco 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 Andreas’s 59.3 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 20.8 pts (35%) Velocity 5.2 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nidec Motor · near

59
Andreas Stihl & KG · this assignee

59
I M A Industria… · near

59
Nabtesco · near

59
Worldpay · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Andreas's Innovation Score is 59.3/100 (top 4% 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 Andreas?

Each dot is one of Andreas’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). Andreas’s own 13.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Andreas's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG received 183 grants versus 202 in 2015–2019 (-9% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 54 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 24. Lead class B25F accounts for 22.1% of the portfolio across 106 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Pegatron Corporation (#1,045) and Gigaphoton Inc. (#1,053).

Andreas's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG moved from 125 to 97 grants (0.78x 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 #1,910. See the growth leaderboard.

Pegatron

414
Traxxas

414
Florida State Uni…

413
Siemens Mobility

413
Japan Tobacco

412
Andreas Stihl & KG ◀

412
A9 com

411
Asahi Glass

411
Gigaphoton

411

What this shows Andreas holds 412 patents at rank #1,049, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Andreas

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,049 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Andreas, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools), Andreas ranks #6 of 229 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Worldpay, LLC 59 Nabtesco Corporation 59 I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.P.A. 59 Nidec Motor Corporation 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Amdocs Development Limited 13.9 avg Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 13.9 avg Heraeus Quarzglas GMBH & Co. KG 13.9 avg Hangzhou Great Star Tools Co., Ltd. 13.9 avg

Andreas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	54	13.1%
2016	33	8.0%
2017	52	12.6%
2018	24	5.8%
2019	39	9.5%
2020	48	11.7%
2021	38	9.2%
2022	28	6.8%
2023	34	8.3%
2024	35	8.5%
2025partial year	27	6.6%

Which technologies does Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG patent most?

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 91

B27B - Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor 84

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 69

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 66

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 65

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 49

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 39

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 38

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 31

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 30

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 17

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 16

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 16

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 16

Top 15 of 106 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

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG's lead technology class is B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 22.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25F
Ranked #1,049 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG against Pegatron Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.3/100 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

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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

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