Where does Obrist Technologies GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Obrist Technologies GMBH ranks #17,056 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 Obrist Technologies GMBH hold?

Obrist Technologies GMBH holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Obrist Technologies GMBH's Innovation Score?

Obrist Technologies GMBH has an Innovation Score of 37.5 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Obrist Technologies GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Obrist Technologies GMBH's recent grant velocity is -12% 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 Obrist Technologies GMBH's patents?

Obrist Technologies GMBH's patents average 13.5 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 Obrist Technologies 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

Obrist Technologies GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Obrist Technologies GMBH focus on?

Obrist Technologies GMBH's top technology area is 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 ) with 10 patents, ranking #274 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Obrist ranks #17,056 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 23 technology areas.

#17,056
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.5/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17056 · Foreign Corporation #17,056 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,056/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nucleus Scientific
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 23 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nucleus Scientific 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 Obrist’s 37.5 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 10.0 pts (27%) Velocity 2.5 pts (7%) Breadth 17.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Obrist · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Obrist's Innovation Score is 37.5/100 (top 43% 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 Obrist?

Each dot is one of Obrist’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). Obrist’s own 13.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Obrist's grants concentrate

Obrist Technologies GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 58.8% of grants classified under 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 Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Obrist sits between Nucleus Scientific Inc. and On24, Inc..

Obrist's three-year grant acceleration

Obrist Technologies GMBH shows 3 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.

Nucleus Scientific

17
Nufern

17
Numerify

17
Nuodb

17
Oclaro Technology

17
Ocular Therapeutix

17
Ojmar

17
On24

17
Obrist ◀

17

What this shows Obrist holds 17 patents at rank #17,054, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Obrist

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,054 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

Obrist's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Obrist Technologies GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.9%
2017	2	11.8%
2018	1	5.9%
2019	4	23.5%
2020	3	17.6%
2021	1	5.9%
2023	2	11.8%
2024	1	5.9%
2025partial year	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Obrist Technologies GMBH patent most?

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 10

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 8

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 8

F01B - Machines OR Engines, IN General OR OF Positive-displacement Type, e.g. Steam Engines 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 6

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 6

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 3

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 3

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 2

F16H - Gearing 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 1

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 1

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 1

Top 15 of 23 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

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

Obrist Technologies GMBH's lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 58.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #17,056 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Obrist Technologies GMBH against Nucleus Scientific Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.5/100 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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