Where does Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH ranks #2,126 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 Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH hold?

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH holds 185 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH's Innovation Score?

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH has an Innovation Score of 56.2 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH focus on?

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 106 patents, ranking #184 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

Is Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH's recent grant velocity is -54% 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 Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH's patents?

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH's patents average 18.0 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 Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH 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

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 185 granted patents across 49 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Boehringer ranks #2,126 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 185 patents across 49 technology areas.

#2,126
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.2/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2126 · Foreign Corporation #2,126 · 185 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 185 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,126/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Energy…
CPC-WIDE A61K · 49 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Energy Industries, 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 Boehringer’s 56.2 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 18.1 pts (32%) Velocity 2.6 pts (5%) Breadth 24.7 pts (44%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Boehringer Ingelheim… · this assignee

56
Skylo · near

56
St Jude Medical… · near

56
Hyundai Kefico · near

56
Tadano · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Boehringer's Innovation Score is 56.2/100 (top 6% 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 Boehringer?

Each dot is one of Boehringer’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). Boehringer’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Boehringer's grants concentrate

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 57.3% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (36 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2023. By volume, Boehringer sits between Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.

Boehringer's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH moved from 51 to 20 grants (0.39x 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 #2,894. See the growth leaderboard.

Tanaka Kikinzoku…

186
The Chamberlain G…

186
University of Hon…

186
Advanced Energy I…

185
Canon Anelva

185
Cooler Master

185
Fujitsu Semicondu…

185
National Taiwan U…

185
Boehringer Ingelh… ◀

185

What this shows Boehringer holds 185 patents at rank #2,126, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Boehringer

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,126 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Boehringer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Boehringer ranks #184 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. 56 Skylo Technologies, Inc. 56 Tadano Ltd. 56 Hyundai Kefico Corporation 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

AeroVironment, Inc. 18.0 avg Autoliv ASP, Inc. 18.0 avg Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC 18.0 avg Pmc-sierra US, Inc. 18.0 avg

Boehringer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	14.6%
2016	21	11.4%
2017	25	13.5%
2018	36	19.5%
2019	14	7.6%
2020	20	10.8%
2021	17	9.2%
2022	8	4.3%
2023	6	3.2%
2024	6	3.2%
2025partial year	5	2.7%

Which technologies does Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 106

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 90

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 58

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 43

C07K - Peptides 33

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 32

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 20

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 18

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 18

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 16

A61D - Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, OR Methods 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 9

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 8

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 8

Top 15 of 49 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

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 57.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #2,126 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH against Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.2/100 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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