Where does Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated ranks #3,450 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 Nixdorf Incorporated hold?

Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated holds 107 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 49.1 out of 100 (top 15% 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 Nixdorf Incorporated focus on?

Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated's top technology area is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus) with 85 patents, ranking #32 of 1,075 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Is Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +11% 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 Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated's patents?

Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated's patents average 14.8 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 Nixdorf Incorporated 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 Nixdorf Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 107 granted patents across 31 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Diebold ranks #3,450 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 107 patents across 31 technology areas.

#3,450
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.1/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: +11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3450 · US Corporation #3,450 · 107 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 107 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,450/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bestop
CPC-FOCUS G07F · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bestop, 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 Diebold’s 49.1 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 16.2 pts (33%) Velocity 4.3 pts (9%) Breadth 19.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aker Solutions AS · near

49
Diebold Nixdorf… · this assignee

49
Elan Microelectronics · near

49
North-West University · near

49
Rhode Island Hospital · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Diebold's Innovation Score is 49.1/100 (top 15% 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 14.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Diebold's grants concentrate

Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 79.4% of grants classified under G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (25 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2024. By volume, Diebold sits between Bestop, Inc. and Mitsui High-tec, Inc..

Diebold's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated moved from 40 to 26 grants (0.65x 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 #2,313. See the growth leaderboard.

Bestop

107
Boston Scientific…

107
Costa Del Mar

107
Cylance

107
Elbit Systems

107
Galderma Research…

107
Jilin University

107
Mitsui High-tec

107
Diebold Nixdorf I… ◀

107

What this shows Diebold holds 107 patents at rank #3,450, 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 #3,450 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 #32 of 1,075 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Elan Microelectronics Corporation 49 Rhode Island Hospital 49 Aker Solutions AS 49 North-West University 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.8 here).

Versitech Limited 14.8 avg Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation 14.8 avg Daiki Co., Ltd. 14.8 avg ZF Active Safety GmbH 14.8 avg

Diebold's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	6	5.6%
2018	25	23.4%
2019	15	14.0%
2020	14	13.1%
2021	11	10.3%
2022	7	6.5%
2023	14	13.1%
2024	5	4.7%
2025partial year	10	9.3%

Which technologies does Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated patent most?

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 85

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 65

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 34

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 22

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 11

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

E05G - Safes OR Strong-rooms FOR VALUABLES; Bank Protection DEVICES; Safety Transaction Partitions 4

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 4

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 2

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

Top 15 of 31 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 Nixdorf Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated's lead technology class is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus), 79.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07F
Ranked #3,450 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated against Bestop, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.1/100 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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