Where does Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH ranks #19,488 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 Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH hold?

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH's Innovation Score?

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH has an Innovation Score of 40.5 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH focus on?

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 8 patents, ranking #1,251 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH's recent grant velocity is +125% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH's patents?

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH's patents average 18.2 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 Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH 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

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Baden-wuerttemberg ranks #19,488 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 25 technology areas.

#19,488
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.5/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +125%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19488 · Foreign Corporation #19,488 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,488/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bando Kiko
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +125% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bando Kiko Co., Ltd (±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 Baden-wuerttemberg’s 40.5 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 9.4 pts (23%) Velocity 2.5 pts (6%) Breadth 17.7 pts (44%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Baden-Wuerttemberg… · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Baden-wuerttemberg's Innovation Score is 40.5/100 (top 35% 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 Baden-wuerttemberg?

Each dot is one of Baden-wuerttemberg’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). Baden-wuerttemberg’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Baden-wuerttemberg's grants concentrate

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Baden-wuerttemberg sits between Brightwake Limited and Bay Materials, LLC.

Baden-wuerttemberg's three-year grant acceleration

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Brightwake

14
British Cayman Is…

14
Brumis Imports

14
Bwxt Isotope Tech…

14
Bando Kiko

14
Barron Associates

14
Bausch + Ströbel…

14
Bay Materials

14
Baden-wuerttember… ◀

14

What this shows Baden-Wuerttemberg holds 14 patents at rank #19,511, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Baden-Wuerttemberg

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,511 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Baden-Wuerttemberg's primary technology class.

Baden-wuerttemberg's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	14.3%
2019	2	14.3%
2020	4	28.6%
2021	2	14.3%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	1	7.1%
2024	1	7.1%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

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 5

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 4

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 4

F15D - Fluid Dynamics, i.e. Methods OR Means FOR Influencing THE Flow OF Gases OR Liquids 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 4

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 3

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

Top 15 of 25 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

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #19,488 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH against Brightwake Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.5/100 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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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

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