Where does Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG ranks #11,704 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 Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 52.1 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 16.3 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 Krauss-maffei Wegmann 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

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG'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 13 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Krauss-maffei ranks #11,704 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 19 technology areas.

#11,704
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.1/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11704 · Foreign Corporation #11,704 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,704/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kama-Tech (HK)
CPC-FOCUS F41A · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kama-Tech (HK) Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Krauss-maffei… · this assignee

52
Spinal Simplicity · near

52
STI Holdings · near

52
u-blox · near

52
Makinarocks · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Krauss-maffei's Innovation Score is 52.1/100 (top 10% 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.

Where Krauss-maffei's grants concentrate

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 50% 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 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Krauss-maffei sits between Kingpak Technology Inc. and Knox Associates, Inc..

Krauss-maffei's three-year grant acceleration

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Kingpak Technology

26
Konica Minolta Me…

26
Koppe Royalty B V

26
Korea National Un…

26
KS Kolbenschmidt

26
Kuang-chi Institu…

26
Kama-tech (HK)

26
Knox Associates

26
Krauss-maffei Weg… ◀

26

What this shows Krauss-maffei holds 26 patents at rank #11,700, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Krauss-maffei

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,700 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Krauss-maffei's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Krauss-maffei, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Spinal Simplicity, LLC 52 STI Holdings, Inc. 52 u-blox AG 52 Makinarocks Co., Ltd. 52

Krauss-maffei's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.5%
2016	6	23.1%
2017	6	23.1%
2018	1	3.8%
2020	2	7.7%
2021	1	3.8%
2023	4	15.4%
2024	3	11.5%

Which technologies does Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 13

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 10

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 7

B60F - Vehicles FOR USE Both ON Rail AND ON ROAD; Amphibious OR Like VEHICLES; Convertible Vehicles 3

F41F - Apparatus FOR Launching Projectiles OR Missiles From Barrels, e.g. Cannons ; Launchers FOR Rockets OR TORPEDOES; Harpoon Guns 2

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 2

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 2

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 1

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 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

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 1

E01D - Construction OF Bridges, ; Elevated ROADWAYS; OR VIADUCTS; Assembly OF Bridges 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#11,704

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #11,704 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Krauss-maffei Wegmann GMBH & Co. KG against Kingpak Technology Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.1/100 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

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