Where does Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG ranks #7,865 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 Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 22 patents, ranking #143 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 14.9 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 Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. 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

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 20 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Iwis ranks #7,865 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 20 technology areas.

#7,865
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7865 · Foreign Corporation #7,865 · 41 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,865/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Huami
CPC-FOCUS F16H · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Huami Inc. (±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 Iwis’s 43.7 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 12.9 pts (30%) Velocity 6.0 pts (14%) Breadth 15.8 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Exmark Manufacturing… · near

44
Iwis Motorsysteme & KG · this assignee

44
Magseis FF · near

44
Superior Communicati… · near

44
Yamashin-filter · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Iwis's Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 28% 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 Iwis?

Each dot is one of Iwis’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). Iwis’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Iwis's grants concentrate

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 53.7% of grants classified under F16H (Gearing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Iwis sits between Huami Inc. and Japan Polyethylene Corporation.

Iwis's three-year grant acceleration

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Huami

41
Inha University R…

41
Institute OF Phys…

41
Intact Vascular

41
Imerys USA

41
Impossible Foods

41
Inventec Applianc…

41
Japan Polyethylene

41
Iwis Motorsysteme… ◀

41

What this shows Iwis holds 41 patents at rank #7,862, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Iwis

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,862 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Iwis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16H (Gearing), Iwis ranks #143 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Yamashin-filter Corp. 44 Exmark Manufacturing Company Incorporated 44 Superior Communications, Inc. 44 Magseis FF LLC 44

Iwis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 28% higher than 72% 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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Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	14.6%
2016	3	7.3%
2017	7	17.1%
2018	4	9.8%
2019	2	4.9%
2020	3	7.3%
2021	5	12.2%
2022	6	14.6%
2023	1	2.4%
2024	2	4.9%
2025partial year	2	4.9%

Which technologies does Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

F16H - Gearing 22

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 12

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 11

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 8

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 5

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 4

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B21L - Making Metal Chains 3

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 2

C22C - Alloys 2

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 2

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 1

F01B - Machines OR Engines, IN General OR OF Positive-displacement Type, e.g. Steam Engines 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 53.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #7,865 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG against Huami Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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

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.