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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa ranks #1,371 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 DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa hold?

DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa holds 306 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 81 technology areas.

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

DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa has an Innovation Score of 60.8 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 124 patents, ranking #149 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 81 CPC subclasses total.

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

DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa's recent grant velocity is +48% 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 DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa's patents?

DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa's patents average 17.0 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 DRÄGERWERK 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

DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 306 granted patents across 81 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Drägerwerk ranks #1,371 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 306 patents across 81 technology areas.

#1,371
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.8/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1371 · Foreign Corporation #1,371 · 306 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 306 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,371/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alfa Laval Corporate…
CPC-WIDE A61B · 81 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alfa Laval Corporate AB (±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 Drägerwerk’s 60.8 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 19.8 pts (33%) Velocity 5.8 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Clariant International · near

61
DRÄGERWERK & Kgaa · this assignee

61
The Trustees of the… · near

61
Tokitae · near

61
United States of… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Drägerwerk's Innovation Score is 60.8/100 (top 3% 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 Drägerwerk?

Each dot is one of Drägerwerk’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). Drägerwerk’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Drägerwerk's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa received 169 grants versus 114 in 2015–2019 (+48% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 40 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 1. Lead class A61B accounts for 40.5% of the portfolio across 81 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Alfa Laval Corporate AB (#1,367) and Nihon Kohden Corporation (#1,375).

Drägerwerk's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa moved from 111 to 96 grants (0.86x 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 #1,612. See the growth leaderboard.

Alfa Laval Corpor…

306
Bissell

306
Cedars Sinai Medi…

306
Coulter Ventures

306
FMR

306
Stmicroelectronic…

306
DRÄGerwerk & Kgaa ◀

306
Max

305
Nihon Kohden

305

What this shows DRÄGERWERK holds 306 patents at rank #1,371, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DRÄGERWERK

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,371 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for DRÄGERWERK, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), DRÄGERWERK ranks #149 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA 61 Clariant International Ltd 61 The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology 61 Tokitae LLC 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. 17.0 avg Sram, LLC 17.0 avg Renesas Electronics America Inc. 17.0 avg Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. 17.0 avg

Drägerwerk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.3%
2016	16	5.2%
2017	24	7.8%
2018	35	11.4%
2019	38	12.4%
2020	40	13.1%
2021	33	10.8%
2022	24	7.8%
2023	40	13.1%
2024	32	10.5%
2025partial year	23	7.5%

Which technologies does DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 124

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 120

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 57

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 26

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 19

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 16

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 15

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 11

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 9

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

Top 15 of 81 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

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

DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 40.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #1,371 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa against Alfa Laval Corporate AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.8/100 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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