Where does Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG ranks #6,991 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 Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 55.6 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is F02B (Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General) with 17 patents, ranking #63 of 496 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

Is Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 15.0 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 Brp-rotax 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

Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 45 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F02B (Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brp-rotax ranks #6,991 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 45 technology areas.

#6,991
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.6/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6991 · Foreign Corporation #6,991 · 47 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #6,991/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ascion
CPC-WIDE F02B · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ascion, 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 Brp-rotax’s 55.6 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 13.4 pts (24%) Velocity 9.5 pts (17%) Breadth 23.7 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brp-rotax & KG · this assignee

56
Faurecia Innenraum… · near

56
Hangzhou Sanhua… · near

56
Institut Pasteur · near

56
Tyco UK · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brp-rotax's Innovation Score is 55.6/100 (top 7% 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 Brp-rotax?

Each dot is one of Brp-rotax’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). Brp-rotax’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Brp-rotax's grants concentrate

Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 36.2% of grants classified under F02B (Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Brp-rotax sits between Ascion, LLC and Carling Technologies, Inc..

Brp-rotax's three-year grant acceleration

Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Ascion

47
B Braun Medical

47
Beijing BOE Multi…

47
BI Incorporated

47
Botrista

47
Chunghwa Precisio…

47
Careview Communic…

47
Carling

47
Brp-rotax & KG ◀

47

What this shows Brp-rotax holds 47 patents at rank #6,990, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brp-rotax

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,990 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02B (Internal-combustion Piston Engines)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Brp-rotax's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Brp-rotax, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F02B (Internal-combustion Piston Engines), Brp-rotax ranks #63 of 496 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Tyco Electronics UK Ltd 56 Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH 56 Hangzhou Sanhua Research Institute Co., Ltd. 56 Institut Pasteur 56

Brp-rotax's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.1%
2018	5	10.6%
2019	2	4.3%
2020	7	14.9%
2021	5	10.6%
2022	5	10.6%
2023	6	12.8%
2024	9	19.1%
2025partial year	7	14.9%

Which technologies does Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 17

F16H - Gearing 16

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 11

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 9

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 9

B62M - Rider Propulsion OF Wheeled Vehicles OR SLEDGES; Powered Propulsion OF Sledges OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; Transmissions Specially Adapted FOR Such Vehicles 8

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 7

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 7

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

B62J - Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors 5

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 5

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 4

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 4

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 4

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 3

Top 15 of 45 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

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

Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is F02B (Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General), 36.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02B
Ranked #6,991 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brp-rotax GMBH & Co. KG against Ascion, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.6/100 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.

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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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