Where does Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG ranks #6,823 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 Textile GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 48.3 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -55% 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 Textile GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 12.6 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 Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. 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

Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is D01D (Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons) with 19 patents, ranking #7 of 253 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 28 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: D01D (Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oerlikon ranks #6,823 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 28 technology areas.

#6,823
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.3/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6823 · Foreign Corporation #6,823 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,823/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Guard…
CPC-FOCUS D01D · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Guard Health Affairs (±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 48.3 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 13.5 pts (28%) Velocity 8.6 pts (18%) Breadth 18.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dongguan University… · near

48
Encite · near

48
Oerlikon Textile & KG · this assignee

48
Pegavision · near

48
SI Group · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oerlikon's Innovation Score is 48.3/100 (top 17% 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 12.6 claims/patent is at or below the 14.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Oerlikon's grants concentrate

Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 38.8% of grants classified under D01D (Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Oerlikon sits between National Guard Health Affairs and Principia Biopharma Inc..

Oerlikon's three-year grant acceleration

Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

National Guard He…

49
Natuzzi S p A

49
Neutron Holdings

49
Otsuka Chemical

49
Pelco

49
Pixelworks

49
Picarro

49
Principia Biophar…

49
Oerlikon Textile… ◀

49

What this shows Oerlikon holds 49 patents at rank #6,824, 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 #6,824 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D01D (Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Art…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oerlikon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D01D (Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Art…), Oerlikon ranks #7 of 253 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Dongguan University of Technology 48 SI Group, Inc. 48 Encite LLC 48 Pegavision Corporation 48

Oerlikon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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 Textile GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	20.4%
2016	14	28.6%
2017	5	10.2%
2018	3	6.1%
2019	1	2.0%
2020	2	4.1%
2021	4	8.2%
2022	2	4.1%
2023	5	10.2%
2024	2	4.1%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

D01D - Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons 19

D02J - Finishing OR Dressing OF Filaments, Yarns, Threads, Cords, Ropes OR THE Like 16

D02G - Crimping OR Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, OR YARNS; Yarns OR Threads 16

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 14

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 4

B01D - Separation 3

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 3

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

D01G - Preliminary Treatment OF Fibres, e.g. FOR Spinning 2

Top 15 of 28 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 Textile GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is D01D (Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons), 38.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D01D
Ranked #6,823 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG against National Guard Health Affairs, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.3/100 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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