Where does Gerhard D. Wempe KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gerhard D. Wempe KG ranks #17,696 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 Gerhard D. Wempe KG hold?

Gerhard D. Wempe KG holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Gerhard D. Wempe KG's Innovation Score?

Gerhard D. Wempe KG has an Innovation Score of 17.1 out of 100 (4th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gerhard D. Wempe KG focus on?

Gerhard D. Wempe KG holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Gerhard D. Wempe KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gerhard D. Wempe KG's recent grant velocity is -86% 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 Gerhard D. Wempe KG's patents?

Gerhard D. Wempe KG's patents average 1.0 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 Gerhard D. Wempe KG 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

Gerhard D. Wempe KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gerhard ranks #17,696 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 0 technology areas.

#17,696
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 4th percentile
by Innovation Score (17.1/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: -86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17696 · Foreign Corporation #17,696 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,696/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gehring +
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-LOW 17.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -86% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gehring Technologies GmbH + Co. (±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 Gerhard’s 17.1 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 9.8 pts (57%) Velocity 6.7 pts (39%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (4%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Gerhard D Wempe KG · this assignee

17
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Gerhard's Innovation Score is 17.1/100 (4th percentile 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 Gerhard?

Each dot is one of Gerhard’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). Gerhard’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Gerhard's grants concentrate

Gerhard D. Wempe KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2015 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Gerhard sits between Gehring Technologies GmbH + Co. and Gizmospring.com Dongguan Limited.

Gerhard's three-year grant acceleration

Gerhard D. Wempe KG shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Gehring +

16
Gelliner

16
Genxcomm

16
Geospace

16
Giatec Scientific

16
Gilead Apollo

16
Givewith

16
Gizmospring com D…

16
Gerhard D Wempe KG ◀

16

What this shows Gerhard holds 16 patents at rank #17,704, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gerhard

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,704 in granted patent volume.

Gerhard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

17 4th percentile higher than 4% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Gerhard D. Wempe KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	81.3%
2018	1	6.3%
2021	1	6.3%
2022	1	6.3%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Gerhard D. Wempe KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #17,696 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gerhard D. Wempe KG against Gehring Technologies GmbH + Co., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 17.1/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.