Where does Miele & CIE. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Miele & CIE. KG ranks #3,286 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 Miele & CIE. KG hold?

Miele & CIE. KG holds 114 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Miele & CIE. KG's Innovation Score?

Miele & CIE. KG has an Innovation Score of 61.7 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Miele & CIE. KG focus on?

Miele & CIE. KG's top technology area is A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General) with 46 patents, ranking #27 of 516 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

Is Miele & CIE. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Miele & CIE. KG'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 Miele & CIE. KG's patents?

Miele & CIE. KG'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 Miele & CIE. 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

Miele & CIE. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 114 granted patents across 59 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: A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Miele ranks #3,286 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 114 patents across 59 technology areas.

#3,286
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.7/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3286 · Foreign Corporation #3,286 · 114 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 114 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,286/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hong Kong Baptist…
CPC-WIDE A47L · 59 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hong Kong Baptist University (±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 Miele’s 61.7 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 16.4 pts (27%) Velocity 12.6 pts (20%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
STMicroelectronics… · near

62
Toray Industries · near

62
University of Iowa… · near

62
Miele & CIE KG · this assignee

62
Stmicroelectronics PTE · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Miele's Innovation Score is 61.7/100 (top 3% 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 Miele?

Each dot is one of Miele’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). Miele’s own 12.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Miele's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Miele & CIE. KG received 44 grants versus 58 in 2015–2019 (-24% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 17 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 2. Lead class A47L accounts for 40.4% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hong Kong Baptist University (#3,281) and Robotis Co., Ltd. (#3,289).

Miele's three-year grant acceleration

Miele & CIE. KG shows 36 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Hong Kong Baptist…

114
Janssen Vaccines…

114
F C C

114
Kymeta

114
Maschinenfabrik R…

114
Nouryon Chemicals…

114
Osterhout Group

114
Robotis

114
Miele & CIE KG ◀

114

What this shows Miele holds 114 patents at rank #3,285, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Miele

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,285 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Miele, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning), Miele ranks #27 of 516 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd 62 University of Iowa Research Foundation 62 Toray Industries, Inc. 62 Stmicroelectronics PTE Ltd 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.8 here).

Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg Morpho, Inc. 12.8 avg Sogang University Research Foundation 12.8 avg Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 12.8 avg

Miele's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Miele & CIE. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	11.4%
2016	12	10.5%
2017	15	13.2%
2018	7	6.1%
2019	11	9.6%
2020	6	5.3%
2021	2	1.8%
2022	8	7.0%
2023	11	9.6%
2024	17	14.9%
2025partial year	12	10.5%

Which technologies does Miele & CIE. KG patent most?

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 46

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 24

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 21

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 13

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 12

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 8

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 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 6

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 6

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 5

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 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 4

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 4

Top 15 of 59 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

Miele & CIE. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Miele & CIE. KG's lead technology class is A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General), 40.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47L
Ranked #3,286 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Miele & CIE. KG against Hong Kong Baptist University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.7/100 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

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