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GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 11 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GKN ranks #28,863 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 11 technology areas.

#28,863
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.7/100)
11.7
avg claims per patent
+600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28863 · Foreign Corporation #28,863 · 9 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
  • MID-PACK #28,863/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Gianni Versace S p A
  • CPC-FOCUS F16D · 11 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 46.7/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 11.7 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-SURGE +600% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gianni Versace S.p.A. (±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 GKN’s 46.7 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around GKN

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows GKN's Innovation Score is 46.7/100 (top 20% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for GKN?

Each dot is one of GKN’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). GKN’s own 11.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 5.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

GKN vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 8.98.999.1 0102030 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Gianni Versace S.p.A. - 9, 1Gianni Versace S…Gimatic S.R.L. - 9, 13.11Gimatic S R LGint Co., Ltd. - 9, 6.67GintGive AND GO Prepared Foods Corp. - 9, 5.78Give AND GO Prepa…Global Plastics, Inc. - 9, 1Global PlasticsGlobus (SHETLAND) Limited - 9, 2.89Globus (Shetland)GMG Products, LLC - 9, 9.56GMG ProductsGO Ghost, LLC - 9, 26.44GO GhostGKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH - 9, 11.67GKN Driveline Deu…
GKN vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where GKN's grants concentrate

GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, GKN sits between Gianni Versace S.p.A. and GO Ghost, LLC.

GKN's three-year grant acceleration

GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH shows 6 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.

Who files at GKN's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows GKN holds 9 patents at rank #28,829, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near GKN

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,829 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GKN, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation), GKN ranks #164 of 1,090 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Alkon Corporation 47 Junkosha Inc. 47 Shenzhen Heytap Technology Corp., Ltd. 47 Empower Semiconductor, Inc. 47

GKN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 1 11.1%
2020 1 11.1%
2022 5 55.6%
2023 1 11.1%
2025partial year 1 11.1%

Which technologies does GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH patent most?

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH's lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
  • Ranked #28,863 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH against Gianni Versace S.p.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 46.7/100 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

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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

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.