Where does DMG Mori Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DMG Mori Co., Ltd. ranks #2,370 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 DMG Mori Co., Ltd. hold?

DMG Mori Co., Ltd. holds 165 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is DMG Mori Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

DMG Mori Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 52.6 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is DMG Mori Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

DMG Mori Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +70% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for DMG Mori Co., Ltd.'s patents?

DMG Mori Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.2 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 DMG Mori Co., Ltd. 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

DMG Mori Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does DMG Mori Co., Ltd. focus on?

DMG Mori Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result) with 89 patents. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 165 granted patents across 65 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: B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Co).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, DMG ranks #2,370 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 165 patents across 65 technology areas.

#2,370
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 8.2
avg claims per patent: +70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2370 · Foreign Corporation #2,370 · 165 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 165 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,370/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH A Raymond ET CIE
CPC-WIDE B23Q · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: A. Raymond ET CIE (±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
CMR Surgical · near

53
DMG Mori · this assignee

53
FIH (HONG KONG) · near

53
Infineon Dresden & KG · near

53
NOF · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows DMG's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (top 10% 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.

How DMG's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, DMG Mori Co., Ltd. received 90 grants versus 53 in 2015–2019 (+70% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 24 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 3. Lead class B23Q accounts for 53.9% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ulvac, Inc. (#2,366) and Meso Scale Technologies, LLC. (#2,374).

DMG's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, DMG Mori Co., Ltd. moved from 65 to 49 grants (0.75x 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 #1,975. See the growth leaderboard.

Ulvac

166
Xyleco

166
A Raymond ET CIE

165
Amdocs Software S…

165
Godo Kaisha IP Br…

165
Horiba Stec

165
Inscripta

165
Meso Scale

165
DMG Mori ◀

165

What this shows DMG holds 165 patents at rank #2,370, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DMG

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,370 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23Q (Details)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co. KG 53 CMR Surgical Limited 53 FIH (HONG KONG) Limited 53 NOF Corporation 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.2 here).

Gripple Limited 8.2 avg Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd. 8.3 avg Hefei University of Technology 8.2 avg Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. 8.3 avg

DMG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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DMG Mori Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	1.8%
2017	8	4.8%
2018	18	10.9%
2019	24	14.5%
2020	24	14.5%
2021	17	10.3%
2022	13	7.9%
2023	13	7.9%
2024	23	13.9%
2025partial year	22	13.3%

Which technologies does DMG Mori Co., Ltd. patent most?

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 89

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 48

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 27

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 24

B23B - TURNING; Boring 18

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 17

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 14

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 14

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 12

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 9

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

Top 15 of 65 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,370

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.6 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

DMG Mori Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

DMG Mori Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Co), 53.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23Q
Ranked #2,370 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare DMG Mori Co., Ltd. against Ulvac, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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

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