Where does Ford-werke Gmbh rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ford-werke Gmbh ranks #24,356 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Ford-werke Gmbh hold?

Ford-werke Gmbh holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Ford-werke Gmbh's Innovation Score?

Ford-werke Gmbh has an Innovation Score of 35.1 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ford-werke Gmbh's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ford-werke Gmbh's recent grant velocity is +167% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ford-werke Gmbh's patents?

Ford-werke Gmbh's patents average 16.2 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 Ford-werke Gmbh 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

Ford-werke Gmbh

Q: What technology areas does Ford-werke Gmbh focus on?

Ford-werke Gmbh's top technology area is F02M (SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: F02M (SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ford-werke ranks #24,356 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 20 technology areas.

#24,356
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.1/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +167%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24356 · Foreign Corporation #24,356 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,356/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Fluke Precision Meas…
CPC-FOCUS F02M · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +167% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fluke Precision Measurement Limited (±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
Ford-werke · this assignee

35
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Ford-werke's Innovation Score is 35.1/100 (top 50% 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 Ford-werke's grants concentrate

Ford-werke Gmbh is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 54.5% of grants classified under F02M (SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Ford-werke sits between Fluke Precision Measurement Limited and Forsyth Dental Infirmary For Children.

Ford-werke's three-year grant acceleration

Ford-werke Gmbh shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Fluke Precision M…

11
Follett

11
Fonality

11
Fontaine Commerci…

11
Foresee Scientech

11
Forever Bulb

11
Forgerock

11
Forsyth Dental In…

11
Ford-werke ◀

11

What this shows Ford-werke holds 11 patents at rank #24,361, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ford-werke

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,361 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General WITH Combustible…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Ford-werke's primary technology class.

Ford-werke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

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

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Ford-werke Gmbh patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	1	9.1%
2020	7	63.6%
2023	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Ford-werke Gmbh patent most?

F02M - SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF 6

F02D - CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES 5

F16D - COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; CLUTCHES; BRAKES 2

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

B29L - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES 2

B62D - MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS 2

B01F - MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 1

F01M - LUBRICATING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; LUBRICATING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; CRANKCASE VENTILATING 1

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 1

F02F - CYLINDERS, PISTONS OR CASINGS, FOR COMBUSTION ENGINES; ARRANGEMENTS OF SEALINGS IN COMBUSTION ENGINES 1

C22C - ALLOYS 1

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; MEANS FOR DAMPING VIBRATION 1

B65G - TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS 1

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,356

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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