Where does Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG ranks #8,353 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 Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 57.8 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG.

What does claim depth mean for Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 16.0 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 Clarios Germany 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

Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy) with 35 patents, ranking #191 of 2,332 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Clarios ranks #8,353 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 23 technology areas.

#8,353
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.8/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8353 · Foreign Corporation #8,353 · 38 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,353/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carl Zeiss SMS
CPC-FOCUS H01M · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carl Zeiss SMS 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 Clarios’s 57.8 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 12.7 pts (22%) Velocity 18.5 pts (32%) Breadth 17.0 pts (29%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Clarios Germany & KG · this assignee

58
Koninklijke Douwe… · near

58
Zoetis Services · near

58
AR & NS Investment · near

58
International Paper · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Clarios's Innovation Score is 57.8/100 (top 5% 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 Clarios?

Each dot is one of Clarios’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). Clarios’s own 16.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Clarios's grants concentrate

Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 92.1% of grants classified under H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2021. By volume, Clarios sits between Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd. and Cool Planet Energy System, Inc..

Clarios's three-year grant acceleration

Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG shows 25 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Carl Zeiss SMS

38
Caterpillar Energ…

38
Caterpillar Motor…

38
Champion Link Int…

38
Coelux S r l

38
Comenity

38
Concaten

38
Cool Planet Energ…

38
Clarios Germany &… ◀

38

What this shows Clarios holds 38 patents at rank #8,355, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Clarios

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,355 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Clarios, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01M (Processes OR Means), Clarios ranks #191 of 2,332 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. 58 Zoetis Services LLC 58 AR & NS Investment, LLC 58 International Paper Company 58

Clarios's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	5	13.2%
2021	4	10.5%
2022	8	21.1%
2023	7	18.4%
2024	10	26.3%
2025partial year	4	10.5%

Which technologies does Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 35

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 34

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 1

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

Top 15 of 23 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

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

Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy), 92.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01M
Ranked #8,353 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG against Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.8/100 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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