Where does Ferag AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ferag AG ranks #3,806 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 Ferag AG hold?

Ferag AG holds 95 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Ferag AG's Innovation Score?

Ferag AG has an Innovation Score of 50.3 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ferag AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ferag AG's recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Ferag AG's patents?

Ferag AG's patents average 18.8 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 Ferag AG 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

Ferag AG

Q: What technology areas does Ferag AG focus on?

Ferag AG's top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 58 patents. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 95 granted patents across 34 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ferag ranks #3,806 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 95 patents across 34 technology areas.

#3,806
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3806 · Foreign Corporation #3,806 · 95 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 95 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,806/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Daido Steel
CPC-FOCUS B65G · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Daido Steel Co., 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Federal-Mogul · near

50
Ferag · this assignee

50
Ludwig Institute… · near

50
OVD Kinegram · near

50
Thales Avionics · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ferag's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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 Ferag's grants concentrate

Ferag AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 61.1% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, Ferag sits between Daido Steel Co., Ltd. and Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH.

Ferag's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ferag AG moved from 31 to 12 grants (0.39x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Daido Steel

95
Daqri

95
Dialog Semiconduc…

95
Element Six

95
Flender

95
Guided Therapy Sy…

95
Hyosung Heavy Ind…

95
Honda Research In…

95
Ferag ◀

95

What this shows Ferag holds 95 patents at rank #3,806, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ferag

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,806 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Ludwig Institute FOR Cancer Research Ltd 50 Thales Avionics, Inc. 50 Federal-Mogul LLC 50 OVD Kinegram AG 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

BitSight Technologies, Inc. 18.8 avg Woven Planet North America, Inc. 18.8 avg Facebook, Inc. 18.8 avg L3 Technologies, Inc. 18.8 avg

Ferag's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Ferag AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	13.7%
2016	13	13.7%
2017	10	10.5%
2018	13	13.7%
2019	15	15.8%
2020	8	8.4%
2021	8	8.4%
2022	5	5.3%
2023	3	3.2%
2024	4	4.2%
2025partial year	3	3.2%

Which technologies does Ferag AG patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 58

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 32

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 12

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

B42C - Bookbinding 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

B61B - Railway SYSTEMS; Equipment Therefor NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 4

B42F - Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing 4

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 4

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 3

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,806

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.3 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

Ferag AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ferag AG's lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 61.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #3,806 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ferag AG against Daido Steel Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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

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