Where does Deutsche Post AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Deutsche Post AG ranks #3,009 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 Deutsche Post AG hold?

Deutsche Post AG holds 126 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 64 technology areas.

What is Deutsche Post AG's Innovation Score?

Deutsche Post AG has an Innovation Score of 59.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Deutsche Post AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Deutsche Post AG's recent grant velocity is +45% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Deutsche Post AG's patents?

Deutsche Post AG's patents average 19.1 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 Deutsche Post AG 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

Deutsche Post AG

Q: What technology areas does Deutsche Post AG focus on?

Deutsche Post AG's top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 48 patents, ranking #305 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 64 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 126 granted patents across 64 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Deutsche ranks #3,009 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 126 patents across 64 technology areas.

#3,009
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: +45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3009 · Foreign Corporation #3,009 · 126 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 126 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,009/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ceres
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 64 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ceres, 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 Deutsche’s 59.6 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 16.7 pts (28%) Velocity 6.4 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ball Aerospace & · near

60
Deutsche Post · this assignee

60
Harman Becker… · near

60
Palo Alto Networks · near

60
TPK Advanced Solutions · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Deutsche's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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 Deutsche?

Each dot is one of Deutsche’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). Deutsche’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Deutsche's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Deutsche Post AG received 71 grants versus 49 in 2015–2019 (+45% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 17 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 6. Lead class G06Q accounts for 38.1% of the portfolio across 64 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ceres, Inc. (#3,006) and Hisense Electric Co., Ltd. (#3,014).

Deutsche's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Deutsche Post AG moved from 44 to 42 grants (0.95x 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 #1,305. See the growth leaderboard.

Ceres

126
Cobra Golf Incorp…

126
Dexin

126
Dena

126
Fair Isaac

126
Fyusion

126
Goodrich Actuatio…

126
Hisense Electric

126
Deutsche Post ◀

126

What this shows Deutsche holds 126 patents at rank #3,010, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Deutsche

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,010 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Deutsche, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Deutsche ranks #305 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. 60 Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH 60 TPK Advanced Solutions Inc. 60 Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Ofinno Technologies, LLC 19.1 avg Valve Corporation 19.1 avg Esco Group LLC 19.1 avg Quanata, LLC 19.1 avg

Deutsche's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Deutsche Post AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	4.8%
2016	6	4.8%
2017	8	6.3%
2018	14	11.1%
2019	15	11.9%
2020	12	9.5%
2021	17	13.5%
2022	17	13.5%
2023	12	9.5%
2024	13	10.3%
2025partial year	6	4.8%

Which technologies does Deutsche Post AG patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 48

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 44

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 21

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 20

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 17

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 17

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 16

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 15

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 15

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 13

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 12

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 10

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

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 8

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

Top 15 of 64 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

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Deutsche Post AG's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 38.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #3,009 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Deutsche Post AG against Ceres, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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.

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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