Where does Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG ranks #10,882 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 Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 38.9 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs) with 25 patents, ranking #39 of 815 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 17.1 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 Brose Schliessysteme 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

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brose ranks #10,882 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 11 technology areas.

#10,882
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (38.9/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10882 · Foreign Corporation #10,882 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,882/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bitvore
CPC-FOCUS E05B · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bitvore Corp. (±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 Brose’s 38.9 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 11.6 pts (30%) Velocity 5.3 pts (14%) Breadth 11.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BioCardia · near

39
Brose Schliessysteme… · this assignee

39
Co2pac · near

39
Soulbrain · near

39
Verizon Digital… · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brose's Innovation Score is 38.9/100 (top 39% 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 Brose?

Each dot is one of Brose’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). Brose’s own 17.1 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.

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

Where Brose's grants concentrate

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 89.3% of grants classified under E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Brose sits between Bitvore Corp. and Cedes AG.

Brose's three-year grant acceleration

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Bitvore

28
Blakely Ventures

28
Blue Buffalo Ente…

28
Bracco Diagnostics

28
Canon Electron Tu…

28
Canon Nanotechnol…

28
Carbios

28
Cedes

28
Brose Schliessyst… ◀

28

What this shows Brose holds 28 patents at rank #10,882, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brose

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,882 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E05B (Locks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Brose, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E05B (Locks), Brose ranks #39 of 815 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Soulbrain Co., Ltd. 39 Co2pac Limited 39 BioCardia Inc. 39 Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. 39

Brose's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	14.3%
2016	5	17.9%
2017	10	35.7%
2020	3	10.7%
2021	2	7.1%
2022	2	7.1%
2023	2	7.1%

Which technologies does Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 25

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 5

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 4

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 3

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 2

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F16H - Gearing 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is E05B (LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs), 89.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E05B
Ranked #10,882 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG against Bitvore Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.