Where does IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa ranks #6,789 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 IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa hold?

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa's Innovation Score?

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa has an Innovation Score of 53.8 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa focus on?

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 37 patents, ranking #105 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

Is IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa's recent grant velocity is +209% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa's patents?

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa's patents average 14.6 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 IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa 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

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, IMS ranks #6,789 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 28 technology areas.

#6,789
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.8/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +209%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6789 · Foreign Corporation #6,789 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,789/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hangzhou Hpwinner Opto
CPC-FOCUS F16H · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +209% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hangzhou Hpwinner Opto Corporation (±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 IMS’s 53.8 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 13.5 pts (25%) Velocity 12.8 pts (24%) Breadth 18.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
IMS Gear SE & Kgaa · this assignee

54
Jiangsu Academy of… · near

54
SimpliSafe · near

54
Spraying Systems · near

54
Voyager Therapeutics · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows IMS's Innovation Score is 53.8/100 (top 8% 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 IMS?

Each dot is one of IMS’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). IMS’s own 14.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where IMS's grants concentrate

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 75.5% of grants classified under F16H (Gearing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, IMS sits between Hangzhou Hpwinner Opto Corporation and Inrix Inc..

IMS's three-year grant acceleration

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa shows 23 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Hangzhou Hpwinner…

49
Hestan Commercial

49
ICE Thermal Harve…

49
Imagineering

49
Indena S P A

49
Industrie DE Nora…

49
Innolight Technol…

49
Inrix

49
IMS Gear SE & Kgaa ◀

49

What this shows IMS holds 49 patents at rank #6,788, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near IMS

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,788 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for IMS, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16H (Gearing), IMS ranks #105 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. 54 Spraying Systems Co. 54 SimpliSafe, Inc. 54 Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences 54

IMS's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	7	14.3%
2018	3	6.1%
2019	1	2.0%
2020	6	12.2%
2021	5	10.2%
2022	3	6.1%
2023	10	20.4%
2024	10	20.4%
2025partial year	4	8.2%

Which technologies does IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa patent most?

F16H - Gearing 37

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 11

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 7

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 2

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 2

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

Top 15 of 28 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

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 75.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #6,789 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare IMS Gear SE & Co. Kgaa against Hangzhou Hpwinner Opto Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.8/100 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.