Where does Diebold, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Diebold, Inc. ranks #13,947 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 Diebold, Inc. hold?

Diebold, Inc. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Diebold, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Diebold, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.4 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Diebold, Inc. focus on?

Diebold, Inc.'s top technology area is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus) with 18 patents, ranking #113 of 1,075 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Diebold, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Diebold, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Diebold, Inc.'s patents?

Diebold, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 Diebold, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Diebold, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Diebold ranks #13,947 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 19 technology areas.

#13,947
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.4/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13947 · US Corporation #13,947 · 21 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #13,947/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Data Systems
CPC-FOCUS G07F · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Data Systems Co., 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 Diebold’s 37.4 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 10.7 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Case-mate · near

37
Cedes · near

37
Diebold · this assignee

37
Opko Ireland Global… · near

37
VirnetX · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Diebold's Innovation Score is 37.4/100 (top 44% 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 Diebold?

Each dot is one of Diebold’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). Diebold’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Diebold's grants concentrate

Diebold, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (12 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2017. By volume, Diebold sits between Data Systems Co., Ltd. and DSM Nutritional Products, LLC.

Data Systems

21
Datometry

21
Dehn SE + KG

21
Dgshape

21
Dieterich Standard

21
Dmai

21
Dongguan Pinmi Te…

21
DSM Nutritional P…

21
Diebold ◀

21

What this shows Diebold holds 21 patents at rank #13,945, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Diebold

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,945 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Diebold, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus), Diebold ranks #113 of 1,075 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Opko Ireland Global Holdings, Ltd. 37 Cedes AG 37 VirnetX, Inc. 37 Case-mate, Inc. 37

Diebold's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

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

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Diebold, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	57.1%
2016	5	23.8%
2017	4	19.0%

Which technologies does Diebold, Inc. patent most?

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 18

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 16

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

E05G - Safes OR Strong-rooms FOR VALUABLES; Bank Protection DEVICES; Safety Transaction Partitions 3

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

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 2

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Diebold, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Diebold, Inc.'s lead technology class is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07F
Ranked #13,947 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Diebold, Inc. against Data Systems Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.4/100 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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