Where does Ipgate AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ipgate AG ranks #5,949 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 Ipgate AG hold?

Ipgate AG holds 57 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Ipgate AG's Innovation Score?

Ipgate AG has an Innovation Score of 50.8 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ipgate AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ipgate AG's recent grant velocity is +220% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ipgate AG's patents?

Ipgate AG's patents average 20.4 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 Ipgate AG 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

Ipgate AG

Q: What technology areas does Ipgate AG focus on?

Ipgate AG's top technology area is 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) with 57 patents, ranking #28 of 539 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 57 granted patents across 10 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: 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 MO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ipgate ranks #5,949 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 57 patents across 10 technology areas.

#5,949
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.8/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: +220%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5949 · Foreign Corporation #5,949 · 57 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 57 grants
UPPER-Q #5,949/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Franz Haimer…
CPC-FOCUS B60T · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +220% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG (±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 Ipgate’s 50.8 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 14.0 pts (28%) Velocity 13.3 pts (26%) Breadth 11.2 pts (22%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Supercell Oy · near

51
ASM Technology… · near

51
Ipgate · this assignee

51
Korea Institute Of… · near

51
BorgWarner Ludwigsburg · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ipgate's Innovation Score is 50.8/100 (top 12% 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 Ipgate?

Each dot is one of Ipgate’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). Ipgate’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ipgate's grants concentrate

Ipgate AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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 MO). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ipgate sits between Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG and JenaValve Technology, Inc..

Ipgate's three-year grant acceleration

Ipgate AG shows 24 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.

Franz Haimer Masc…

57
Gruenenthal

57
Hitachi Construct…

57
Innocom Technolog…

57
Innovation First

57
Ironburg Inventio…

57
Japan Cash Machine

57
Jenavalve Technol…

57
Ipgate ◀

57

What this shows Ipgate holds 57 patents at rank #5,946, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ipgate

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,946 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ipgate, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof), Ipgate ranks #28 of 539 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

ASM Technology Singapore PTE Ltd 51 Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources 51 Supercell Oy 51 BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.4 here).

Seattle Children's Hospital 20.4 avg Clemson University 20.4 avg Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation 20.4 avg Broadcom Corporation 20.4 avg

Ipgate's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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Ipgate AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.8%
2016	1	1.8%
2017	1	1.8%
2018	3	5.3%
2019	4	7.0%
2020	3	5.3%
2021	5	8.8%
2022	3	5.3%
2023	6	10.5%
2024	15	26.3%
2025partial year	15	26.3%

Which technologies does Ipgate AG patent most?

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 57

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 6

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 5

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F16H - Gearing 2

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 1

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Ipgate AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ipgate AG's lead technology class is 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 MO), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60T
Ranked #5,949 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ipgate AG against Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.8/100 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.

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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