Where does Nidec GPM GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nidec GPM GMBH ranks #9,333 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 Nidec GPM GMBH hold?

Nidec GPM GMBH holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Nidec GPM GMBH's Innovation Score?

Nidec GPM GMBH has an Innovation Score of 49.0 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nidec GPM GMBH focus on?

Nidec GPM GMBH's top technology area is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps) with 16 patents, ranking #125 of 1,034 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nidec GPM GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nidec GPM GMBH's recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nidec GPM GMBH's patents?

Nidec GPM GMBH's patents average 11.6 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 Nidec GPM 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

Nidec GPM GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 24 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: F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nidec ranks #9,333 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 24 technology areas.

#9,333
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.0/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9333 · Foreign Corporation #9,333 · 34 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,333/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Messer Industries USA
CPC-FOCUS F04D · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Messer Industries USA, 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 Nidec’s 49.0 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 12.3 pts (25%) Velocity 12.5 pts (26%) Breadth 17.3 pts (35%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Thales Alenia Space… · near

49
Fluid Handling · near

49
Nidec GPM · this assignee

49
Smartsky Networks · near

49
WÄRTSILÄ Finland OY · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nidec's Innovation Score is 49.0/100 (top 15% 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 Nidec?

Each dot is one of Nidec’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). Nidec’s own 11.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nidec's grants concentrate

Nidec GPM GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 47.1% of grants classified under F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Nidec sits between Messer Industries USA, Inc. and NL Giken Incorporated.

Nidec's three-year grant acceleration

Nidec GPM GMBH shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Messer Industries…

34
National Universi…

34
Neofect

34
Nextremity Soluti…

34
Nidec Seimitsu

34
Niigata University

34
Nippon Steel & Su…

34
NL Giken Incorpor…

34
Nidec GPM ◀

34

What this shows Nidec holds 34 patents at rank #9,331, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nidec

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,331 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nidec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), Nidec ranks #125 of 1,034 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

WÄRTSILÄ Finland OY 49 Fluid Handling LLC 49 Smartsky Networks LLC 49 Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio 49

Nidec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Nidec GPM GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.9%
2016	5	14.7%
2019	2	5.9%
2021	6	17.6%
2022	3	8.8%
2023	7	20.6%
2024	5	14.7%
2025partial year	4	11.8%

Which technologies does Nidec GPM GMBH patent most?

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 16

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 9

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 8

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 7

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 7

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 5

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 3

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 2

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 1

F16N - Lubricating 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 15 of 24 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

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

Nidec GPM GMBH's lead technology class is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), 47.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04D
Ranked #9,333 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nidec GPM GMBH against Messer Industries USA, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.0/100 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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