Where does MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH ranks #2,933 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 MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH hold?

MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH holds 130 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH's Innovation Score?

MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH has an Innovation Score of 49.8 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH focus on?

MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH's top technology area is F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines) with 75 patents, ranking #29 of 518 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

Is MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH's recent grant velocity is -54% 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 MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH's patents?

MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH's patents average 12.4 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 MTU Friedrichshafen 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

MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 130 granted patents across 59 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, MTU ranks #2,933 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 130 patents across 59 technology areas.

#2,933
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.8/100): 12.4
avg claims per patent: -54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2933 · Foreign Corporation #2,933 · 130 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 130 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,933/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Glaxo Group
CPC-WIDE F02D · 59 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Glaxo Group 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.

How MTU’s 49.8 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 16.8 pts (34%) Velocity 0.5 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (50%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Go!Foton · near

50
Hydac Technology · near

50
Mobius Imaging · near

50
MTU Friedrichshafen · this assignee

50
Trudell Medical… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows MTU's Innovation Score is 49.8/100 (top 14% 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 MTU?

Each dot is one of MTU’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). MTU’s own 12.4 claims/patent is at or below the 13.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How MTU's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH received 41 grants versus 89 in 2015–2019 (-54% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 23 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class F02D accounts for 57.7% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Glaxo Group Limited (#2,929) and Spinal Elements, Inc. (#2,937).

MTU's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH moved from 53 to 4 grants (0.07x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,202. See the growth leaderboard.

Glaxo Group

130
Husky Injection M…

130
Kansas State Univ…

130
Katalyst Surgical

130
Munchkin

130
Self

130
Shanghai United I…

130
Spinal Elements

130
MTU Friedrichshaf… ◀

130

What this shows MTU holds 130 patents at rank #2,933, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near MTU

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,933 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for MTU, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines), MTU ranks #29 of 518 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Trudell Medical International Inc. 50 Mobius Imaging, LLC 50 Hydac Technology GMBH 50 Go!Foton, Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.4 here).

Chipbond Technology Corporation 12.4 avg Haworth, Inc. 12.4 avg Tridonic GmbH & Co KG 12.4 avg Sharp Display Technology Corporation 12.4 avg

MTU's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

View data table

MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	17.7%
2016	15	11.5%
2017	21	16.2%
2018	14	10.8%
2019	16	12.3%
2020	16	12.3%
2021	21	16.2%
2022	3	2.3%
2023	1	0.8%

Which technologies does MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH patent most?

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 75

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 74

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 38

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 36

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 27

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 5

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 5

B01D - Separation 5

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 5

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

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 4

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 4

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

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 3

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

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

MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH's lead technology class is F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines), 57.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02D
Ranked #2,933 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH against Glaxo Group Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.8/100 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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