Where does Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG ranks #1,206 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 Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG holds 351 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 52.6 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 334 patents, ranking #64 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 21.3 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 Biedermann Technologies GMBH & 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

Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 351 granted patents across 16 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Biedermann ranks #1,206 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 351 patents across 16 technology areas.

#1,206
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 21.3
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1206 · Foreign Corporation #1,206 · 351 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 351 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,206/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dongwoo Fine-chem
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dongwoo Fine-chem 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 Biedermann’s 52.6 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 20.3 pts (39%) Velocity 5.4 pts (10%) Breadth 14.1 pts (27%) Claim depth 12.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Accuray Incorporated · near

53
Biedermann & KG · this assignee

53
Ecosense Lighting · near

53
Mitsubishi Hitachi… · near

53
SolarCity · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Biedermann's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (top 10% 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 Biedermann?

Each dot is one of Biedermann’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). Biedermann’s own 21.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Biedermann's grants concentrate

Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 95.2% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (53 grants) versus a trough of 20 in 2022. By volume, Biedermann sits between Alstom Technology Ltd and Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited.

Biedermann's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG moved from 95 to 77 grants (0.81x 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 #1,807. See the growth leaderboard.

Alstom Technology

352
Knowles

352
Praxair Technology

352
Seiko Instruments

352
Dongwoo Fine-chem

351
Lumentum Operatio…

351
Shanghai Tianma A…

351
Shenzhen Smoore T…

351
Biedermann & KG ◀

351

What this shows Biedermann holds 351 patents at rank #1,206, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Biedermann

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,206 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Biedermann, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Biedermann ranks #64 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. 53 SolarCity Corporation 53 Accuray Incorporated 53 Ecosense Lighting Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.3 here).

STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd 21.3 avg AOl 21.3 avg Lord Corporation 21.3 avg Westport Power Inc. 21.3 avg

Biedermann's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	9.7%
2016	53	15.1%
2017	27	7.7%
2018	44	12.5%
2019	28	8.0%
2020	22	6.3%
2021	45	12.8%
2022	20	5.7%
2023	20	5.7%
2024	37	10.5%
2025partial year	21	6.0%

Which technologies does Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 334

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 32

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 26

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 8

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 6

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 6

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 5

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 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

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

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 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 95.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #1,206 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG against Alstom Technology Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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

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