Where does Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG ranks #39,827 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 Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 30.1 out of 100 (33rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 13.5 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 Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik 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

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dietze ranks #39,827 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 6 technology areas.

#39,827
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.1/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39827 · Foreign Corporation #39,827 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,827/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Diadem S r l
CPC-NARROW B65H · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Diadem S.r.l. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tianjin Institute… · near

30
Dietze & Schell… · this assignee

30
Hensley Industries · near

30
LEX Products · near

30
Tgoma NZ · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dietze's Innovation Score is 30.1/100 (33rd percentile 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.

Where Dietze's grants concentrate

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Dietze sits between DiaMed GmbH and Digital Solid State Propulsion LLC.

Dietze's three-year grant acceleration

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Diamed

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Diadem S r l

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Diamond Mattress

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Dicar

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Differential Engi…

6
Digi Sens Holding

6
Digital Porpoise

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Digital Solid Sta…

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What this shows Dietze holds 6 patents at rank #39,867, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dietze

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,867 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dietze, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

LEX Products Corp 30 Hensley Industries, Inc. 30 Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research Co., Ltd. 30 Tgoma NZ Limited 30

Dietze's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	33.3%
2017	2	33.3%
2024	1	16.7%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 5

D01D - Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons 1

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

B03B - Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids OR Using Pneumatic Tables OR Jigs 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#39,827

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65H
Ranked #39,827 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dietze & Schell Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG against DiaMed GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.1/100 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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