Where does Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa ranks #3,160 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 Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa hold?

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa holds 119 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa's Innovation Score?

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa's recent grant velocity is +418% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa's patents?

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa's patents average 16.2 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 Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa 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

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa

Q: What technology areas does Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa focus on?

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa's top technology area is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs) with 97 patents, ranking #53 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 119 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ottobock ranks #3,160 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 119 patents across 32 technology areas.

#3,160
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +418%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3160 · Foreign Corporation #3,160 · 119 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 119 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,160/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Driscoll's
CPC-FOCUS A61F · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +418% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Driscoll's, 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 Ottobock’s 52.3 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 16.5 pts (32%) Velocity 6.1 pts (12%) Breadth 20.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
L3 · near

52
Montres Breguet · near

52
Next Silicon · near

52
Ottobock SE & Kgaa · this assignee

52
University of Adelaide · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ottobock's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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 Ottobock?

Each dot is one of Ottobock’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). Ottobock’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ottobock's grants concentrate

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 81.5% of grants classified under A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (22 grants) versus a trough of 14 in 2022. By volume, Ottobock sits between Driscoll's, Inc. and Swisscom AG.

Ottobock's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa moved from 55 to 50 grants (0.91x 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 #1,445. See the growth leaderboard.

Driscoll's

119
Icom Incorporated

119
Lifetime Brands

119
Nippon Steel Chem…

119
Rinnai

119
Rolls-royce High…

119
Suzhou Metabrain…

119
Swisscom

119
Ottobock SE & Kgaa ◀

119

What this shows Ottobock holds 119 patents at rank #3,160, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ottobock

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,160 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ottobock, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels), Ottobock ranks #53 of 3,082 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Montres Breguet S.A. 52 L3 Technologies, Inc. 52 Next Silicon Ltd 52 University of Adelaide 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated 16.2 avg Sintai Optical (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 16.2 avg Extang Corporation 16.2 avg Netspeed Systems, Inc. 16.2 avg

Ottobock's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	17	14.3%
2020	22	18.5%
2021	16	13.4%
2022	14	11.8%
2023	18	15.1%
2024	18	15.1%
2025partial year	14	11.8%

Which technologies does Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa patent most?

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 97

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 15

A61H - Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specific Parts OF THE Body 11

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 9

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 7

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 4

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

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

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 2

Top 15 of 32 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

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa's lead technology class is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device), 81.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #3,160 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa against Driscoll's, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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

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