Where does DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa ranks #2,181 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 DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa hold?

DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa holds 180 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 94 technology areas.

What is DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa's Innovation Score?

DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa has an Innovation Score of 59.0 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa focus on?

DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 78 patents, ranking #193 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 94 CPC subclasses total.

Is DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa's recent grant velocity is +7% 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 DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa's patents?

DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa's patents average 16.7 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 DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa 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

DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 180 granted patents across 94 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dräger ranks #2,181 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 180 patents across 94 technology areas.

#2,181
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2181 · Foreign Corporation #2,181 · 180 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 180 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,181/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 3shape A/S
CPC-WIDE G01N · 94 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 3shape A/S (±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 Dräger’s 59.0 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 18.0 pts (31%) Velocity 6.0 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AVL List · near

59
Daegu Gyeongbuk… · near

59
DRÄGER Safety & Kgaa · this assignee

59
PepsiCo · near

59
TE Connectivity · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dräger's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (top 4% 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 Dräger?

Each dot is one of Dräger’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). Dräger’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Dräger's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa received 81 grants versus 76 in 2015–2019 (+7% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 25 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 9. Lead class G01N accounts for 43.3% of the portfolio across 94 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The Sherwin-Williams Company (#2,176) and Nipro Corporation (#2,184).

Dräger's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa moved from 54 to 49 grants (0.91x 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 #1,454. See the growth leaderboard.

The Sherwin-willi…

181
3shape A/S

180
Bomag

180
Dowa Materials

180
Delavan

180
Giesecke+Devrient…

180
Maplebear

180
Nipro

180
DRÄGER Safety & K… ◀

180

What this shows DRÄGER holds 180 patents at rank #2,180, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DRÄGER

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,180 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for DRÄGER, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), DRÄGER ranks #193 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute OF Science AND Technology 59 AVL List GMBH 59 PepsiCo, Inc. 59 TE Connectivity Co. Ltd. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Beijing Goldwind Science & Creation Windpower Equipment Co., Ltd. 16.7 avg Nouryon Chemicals International B.V. 16.7 avg Sonion Nederland B.V. 16.7 avg Mahle International GmbH 16.7 avg

Dräger's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	5.0%
2016	10	5.6%
2017	14	7.8%
2018	21	11.7%
2019	22	12.2%
2020	15	8.3%
2021	17	9.4%
2022	10	5.6%
2023	25	13.9%
2024	14	7.8%
2025partial year	23	12.8%

Which technologies does DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 78

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 60

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 18

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 14

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 14

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 9

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 7

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 7

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

Top 15 of 94 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

DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 43.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #2,181 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa against The Sherwin-Williams Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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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