Where does BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH ranks #28,279 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 BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH hold?

BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH's Innovation Score?

BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH has an Innovation Score of 29.3 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH focus on?

BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating) with 8 patents, ranking #266 of 1,836 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH's patents?

BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH's patents average 17.0 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 BorgWarner Esslingen 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

BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Borgwarner ranks #28,279 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 10 technology areas.

#28,279
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.3/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28279 · Foreign Corporation #28,279 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,279/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Boehringer Laborator…
CPC-FOCUS F16K · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Boehringer Laboratories LLC (±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 Borgwarner’s 29.3 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 8.0 pts (27%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BorgWarner Esslingen · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Borgwarner's Innovation Score is 29.3/100 (30th percentile 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 Borgwarner?

Each dot is one of Borgwarner’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). Borgwarner’s own 17.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Borgwarner's grants concentrate

BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Borgwarner sits between Boehringer Laboratories LLC and BrainFM, Inc..

Boehringer Labora…

9
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9
Bolt Financial

9
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9
Bot & Dolly

9
Bowman Internatio…

9
Box Tiles

9
Brainfm

9
Borgwarner Esslin… ◀

9

What this shows BorgWarner holds 9 patents at rank #28,297, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BorgWarner

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,297 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

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

Borgwarner's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	11.1%
2017	5	55.6%
2018	1	11.1%
2019	1	11.1%
2021	1	11.1%

Which technologies does BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH patent most?

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

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 1

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Top 10 of 10 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

BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH's lead technology class is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16K
Ranked #28,279 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BorgWarner Esslingen GmbH against Boehringer Laboratories LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.3/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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