Where does Glock Technology GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glock Technology GmbH ranks #6,536 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 Glock Technology GmbH hold?

Glock Technology GmbH holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Glock Technology GmbH's Innovation Score?

Glock Technology GmbH has an Innovation Score of 48.9 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Glock Technology GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Glock Technology GmbH's recent grant velocity is +533% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Glock Technology GmbH's patents?

Glock Technology GmbH's patents average 13.7 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 Glock Technology 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

Glock Technology GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Glock Technology GmbH focus on?

Glock Technology GmbH's top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 43 patents, ranking #9 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Glock ranks #6,536 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 4 technology areas.

#6,536
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.9/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: +533%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6536 · Foreign Corporation #6,536 · 51 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,536/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GDM S P A
CPC-NARROW F41A · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +533% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GDM 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 Glock’s 48.9 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 13.6 pts (28%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 7.1 pts (15%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
General Cable · near

49
Glock Technology · this assignee

49
Pilot · near

49
Rush University… · near

49
Universitat Bern · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Glock's Innovation Score is 48.9/100 (top 16% 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 Glock?

Each dot is one of Glock’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). Glock’s own 13.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Glock's grants concentrate

Glock Technology GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 84.3% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (18 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Glock sits between GDM S.P.A. and Inha-industry Partnership Institute.

Glock's three-year grant acceleration

Glock Technology GmbH shows 35 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

GDM S P A

51
Guangdong Bestek…

51
Guangzhou Tyrafos…

51
Glenmark Pharmace…

51
Helsinn Healthcare

51
Howmet Aerospace

51
Inergy Automotive…

51
Inha-industry Par…

51
Glock Technology ◀

51

What this shows Glock holds 51 patents at rank #6,538, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glock

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,538 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Glock, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), Glock ranks #9 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Universitat Bern 49 General Cable Technologies Corporation 49 Rush University Medical Center 49 Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.7 here).

Morphosys AG 13.7 avg Hisense Mobile Communications Technology Co., Ltd. 13.7 avg Prince Castle LLC 13.7 avg CSP Technologies, Inc. 13.7 avg

Glock's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Glock Technology GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.0%
2018	2	3.9%
2019	3	5.9%
2020	1	2.0%
2021	2	3.9%
2022	8	15.7%
2023	9	17.6%
2024	18	35.3%
2025partial year	7	13.7%

Which technologies does Glock Technology GmbH patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 43

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 9

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Glock Technology GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Glock Technology GmbH's lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 84.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #6,536 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glock Technology GmbH against GDM S.P.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.9/100 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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