Where does Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG ranks #8,780 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 Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG hold?

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 50.2 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG focus on?

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG's top technology area is H03K (Pulse Technique) with 15 patents, ranking #182 of 1,682 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Is Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -38% 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 Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG's patents?

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG's patents average 13.2 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 Diehl AKO Stiftung & 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

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 35 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: H03K (Pulse Technique).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Diehl ranks #8,780 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 35 technology areas.

#8,780
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.2/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8780 · Foreign Corporation #8,780 · 36 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,780/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Daniel Measurement…
CPC-FOCUS H03K · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Daniel Measurement and Control, 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 Diehl’s 50.2 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 12.5 pts (25%) Velocity 8.9 pts (18%) Breadth 20.9 pts (42%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Appian · near

50
Diehl AKO Stiftung… · this assignee

50
ÉCOLE Polytechnique… · near

50
Harris Global… · near

50
Molten Metal… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Diehl's Innovation Score is 50.2/100 (top 13% 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 Diehl?

Each dot is one of Diehl’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). Diehl’s own 13.2 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Diehl's grants concentrate

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 41.7% of grants classified under H03K (Pulse Technique). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Diehl sits between Doosan Machine Tools Co., Ltd. and Dynacraft BSC, Inc..

Diehl's three-year grant acceleration

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Doosan Machine To…

36
Duke Energy

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Daniel Measuremen…

36
Development Cente…

36
Drfirst com

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Draeger Medical S…

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Dupont Industrial…

36
Dynacraft BSC

36
Diehl AKO Stiftun… ◀

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What this shows Diehl holds 36 patents at rank #8,782, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Diehl

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,782 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H03K (Pulse Technique)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Diehl, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H03K (Pulse Technique), Diehl ranks #182 of 1,682 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Harris Global Communications, Inc. 50 ÉCOLE Polytechnique FÉDÉRALE DE Lausanne 50 Appian Corporation 50 Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, LLC 50

Diehl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	19.4%
2016	2	5.6%
2017	4	11.1%
2018	7	19.4%
2019	1	2.8%
2020	2	5.6%
2021	3	8.3%
2022	4	11.1%
2023	1	2.8%
2024	3	8.3%
2025partial year	2	5.6%

Which technologies does Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG patent most?

H03K - Pulse Technique 15

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 7

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 6

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 5

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 4

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 4

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 3

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 2

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG's lead technology class is H03K (Pulse Technique), 41.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H03K
Ranked #8,780 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG against Doosan Machine Tools Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.2/100 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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