Where does Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH ranks #24,931 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 Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH hold?

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH's Innovation Score?

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH has an Innovation Score of 31.8 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH focus on?

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH's top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 7 patents, ranking #194 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH's recent grant velocity is -20% 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 Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH's patents?

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH's patents average 16.8 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 Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) 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

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 6 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oerlikon ranks #24,931 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 6 technology areas.

#24,931
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.8/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24931 · Foreign Corporation #24,931 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,931/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ObsEva
CPC-NARROW F16D · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ObsEva S.A. (±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 Oerlikon’s 31.8 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 8.6 pts (27%) Velocity 4.4 pts (14%) Breadth 8.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Oerlikon's Innovation Score is 31.8/100 (39th percentile 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 Oerlikon?

Each dot is one of Oerlikon’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). Oerlikon’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Oerlikon's grants concentrate

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Oerlikon sits between ObsEva S.A. and Old Dominion Brush Company.

Oerlikon's three-year grant acceleration

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Obseva

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Ocuphire Pharma

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Océ Printing Syst…

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Ogura &

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Ohemo Life Scienc…

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Oki Data Infotech

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Old Dominion Brush

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Oerlikon Friction… ◀

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What this shows Oerlikon holds 11 patents at rank #24,934, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oerlikon

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,934 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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

Oerlikon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% 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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Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	9.1%
2016	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	1	9.1%
2019	1	9.1%
2020	2	18.2%
2024	2	18.2%
2025partial year	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 7

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

F16H - Gearing 1

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

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

Top 6 of 6 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

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH's lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #24,931 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH against ObsEva S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.8/100 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

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