Where does Mbda Deutschland GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mbda Deutschland GmbH ranks #9,077 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 Mbda Deutschland GmbH hold?

Mbda Deutschland GmbH holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Mbda Deutschland GmbH's Innovation Score?

Mbda Deutschland GmbH has an Innovation Score of 40.6 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mbda Deutschland GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mbda Deutschland GmbH's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 Mbda Deutschland GmbH's patents?

Mbda Deutschland GmbH's patents average 12.7 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 Mbda Deutschland 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

Mbda Deutschland GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Mbda Deutschland GmbH focus on?

Mbda Deutschland GmbH's top technology area is F41H (ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General) with 12 patents, ranking #18 of 291 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: F41H (ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mbda ranks #9,077 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 34 technology areas.

#9,077
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.6/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9077 · Foreign Corporation #9,077 · 35 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,077/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lek Pharmaceuticals…
CPC-FOCUS F41H · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lek Pharmaceuticals d. d. (±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 Mbda’s 40.6 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 12.4 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 20.6 pts (51%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Actelion Pharmaceuti… · near

41
Io Therapeutics · near

41
K4connect · near

41
Kyowa Kirin · near

41
Mbda Deutschland · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mbda's Innovation Score is 40.6/100 (top 35% 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 Mbda?

Each dot is one of Mbda’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). Mbda’s own 12.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mbda's grants concentrate

Mbda Deutschland GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 34.3% of grants classified under F41H (ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Mbda sits between Lek Pharmaceuticals d. d. and Mitsubishi Steel MFG. Co., Ltd..

Lek Pharmaceutica…

35
Lepton Computing

35
Logistics and Sup…

35
Maersk Drilling A…

35
Metrol Technology

35
Miro

35
Mitsubishi Heavy…

35
Mitsubishi Steel…

35
Mbda Deutschland ◀

35

What this shows Mbda holds 35 patents at rank #9,073, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mbda

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,073 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41H (Armour)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mbda, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41H (Armour), Mbda ranks #18 of 291 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

K4connect Inc. 41 Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. 41 Io Therapeutics, Inc 41 Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd. 41

Mbda's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Mbda Deutschland GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	17.1%
2016	2	5.7%
2017	8	22.9%
2018	7	20.0%
2019	8	22.9%
2020	2	5.7%
2021	2	5.7%

Which technologies does Mbda Deutschland GmbH patent most?

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 12

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 11

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 5

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 5

F41F - Apparatus FOR Launching Projectiles OR Missiles From Barrels, e.g. Cannons ; Launchers FOR Rockets OR TORPEDOES; Harpoon Guns 3

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 3

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 2

H04B - Transmission 2

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 2

Top 15 of 34 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

Mbda Deutschland GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mbda Deutschland GmbH's lead technology class is F41H (ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General), 34.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41H
Ranked #9,077 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mbda Deutschland GmbH against Lek Pharmaceuticals d. d., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.6/100 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

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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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