Where does Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG ranks #11,991 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 Defence GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 45.3 out of 100 (top 24% 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 Defence GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is F41G (Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming) with 8 patents, ranking #57 of 307 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 15.0 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 Diehl Defence 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

Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 27 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: F41G (Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Diehl ranks #11,991 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 27 technology areas.

#11,991
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.3/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11991 · Foreign Corporation #11,991 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,991/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH De Beers UK
CPC-FOCUS F41G · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: De Beers UK 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 Diehl’s 45.3 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 11.3 pts (25%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 18.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bioness · near

45
Dango Products · near

45
Deckel Maho Pfronten · near

45
Diehl Defence & KG · this assignee

45
Oetiker Schweiz · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Diehl's Innovation Score is 45.3/100 (top 24% 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 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.8 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 Defence GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 32% of grants classified under F41G (Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Diehl sits between De Beers UK Ltd and Espec Corp..

Diehl's three-year grant acceleration

Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG shows 6 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.

De Beers UK

25
Deep Isolation

25
Dejana Truck and…

25
Delphinus Medical

25
Ecole Centrale DE…

25
EI

25
Equos Research

25
Espec

25
Diehl Defence & KG ◀

25

What this shows Diehl holds 25 patents at rank #11,994, 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 #11,994 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41G (Weapon Sights)

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 F41G (Weapon Sights), Diehl ranks #57 of 307 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Oetiker Schweiz AG 45 Dango Products, LLC 45 Bioness Inc. 45 Deckel Maho Pfronten GmbH 45

Diehl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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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Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	8.0%
2018	6	24.0%
2020	5	20.0%
2021	1	4.0%
2022	2	8.0%
2024	4	16.0%
2025partial year	5	20.0%

Which technologies does Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 8

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 6

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 6

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 5

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 3

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 2

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

H03B - Generation OF Oscillations, Directly OR BY Frequency-changing, BY Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate IN A Non-switching MANNER; Generation OF Noise BY Such Circuits 1

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

Top 15 of 27 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

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

Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is F41G (Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming), 32% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41G
Ranked #11,991 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG against De Beers UK Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.