Where does Marquardt GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Marquardt GMBH ranks #7,883 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 Marquardt GMBH hold?

Marquardt GMBH holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 47 technology areas.

What is Marquardt GMBH's Innovation Score?

Marquardt GMBH has an Innovation Score of 48.4 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Marquardt GMBH focus on?

Marquardt GMBH's top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 10 patents, ranking #355 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 47 CPC subclasses total.

Is Marquardt GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Marquardt GMBH's recent grant velocity is -24% 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 Marquardt GMBH's patents?

Marquardt GMBH's patents average 12.8 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 Marquardt 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

Marquardt GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 47 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Marquardt ranks #7,883 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 47 technology areas.

#7,883
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.4/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7883 · Foreign Corporation #7,883 · 41 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,883/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH LexisNexis a…
CPC-WIDE B60R · 47 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier 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 Marquardt’s 48.4 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 (27%) Velocity 3.5 pts (7%) Breadth 24.2 pts (50%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Axcelis · near

48
Columbia Sportswear… · near

48
HEALTHY IO · near

48
Marquardt · this assignee

48
Molecular Devices · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Marquardt's Innovation Score is 48.4/100 (top 17% 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 Marquardt?

Each dot is one of Marquardt’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). Marquardt’s own 12.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Marquardt's grants concentrate

Marquardt GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 24.4% of grants classified under B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Marquardt sits between Lite-on Singapore PTE. Ltd. and Magnolia White Corporation.

Marquardt's three-year grant acceleration

Marquardt GMBH shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Lite-on Singapore…

41
Little Giant Ladd…

41
Lexisnexis a divi…

41
Liveramp

41
Microsemi Solutio…

41
MQ Gaming

41
Muzik

41
Magnolia White

41
Marquardt ◀

41

What this shows Marquardt holds 41 patents at rank #7,881, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Marquardt

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,881 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Marquardt, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), Marquardt ranks #355 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

HEALTHY.IO 48 Molecular Devices, LLC 48 Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. 48 Axcelis Technologies, Inc. 48

Marquardt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Marquardt GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.9%
2017	4	9.8%
2018	5	12.2%
2019	10	24.4%
2020	6	14.6%
2021	1	2.4%
2022	3	7.3%
2023	2	4.9%
2024	4	9.8%
2025partial year	4	9.8%

Which technologies does Marquardt GMBH patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 10

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 8

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 5

H03K - Pulse Technique 5

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 5

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 4

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 3

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 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

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 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

F16H - Gearing 3

Top 15 of 47 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

Marquardt GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Marquardt GMBH's lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 24.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #7,883 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Marquardt GMBH against Lite-on Singapore PTE. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.4/100 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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