Where does Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG ranks #782 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 Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG holds 587 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 86 technology areas.

What is Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 59.2 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -34% 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 Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Phoenix Contact 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 Phoenix Contact 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

Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 219 patents, ranking #20 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 86 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 587 granted patents across 86 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Phoenix ranks #782 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 587 patents across 86 technology areas.

#782
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.2/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: -34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R782 · Foreign Corporation #782 · 587 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 587 grants
TOP-DECILE #782/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kokusai Electric
CPC-WIDE H01R · 86 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -34% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kokusai Electric Corporation (±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 Phoenix’s 59.2 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 22.0 pts (37%) Velocity 4.6 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brembo S p A · near

59
Magna Powertrain & KG · near

59
Phoenix Contact & KG · this assignee

59
Dürr Systems · near

59
Tokyo Institute of… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Phoenix's Innovation Score is 59.2/100 (top 4% 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 Phoenix?

Each dot is one of Phoenix’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). Phoenix’s own 12.6 claims/patent is at or below the 13.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Phoenix's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG received 219 grants versus 331 in 2015–2019 (-34% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 79 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 23. Lead class H01R accounts for 37.3% of the portfolio across 86 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Showa Denko K.K. (#778) and Bayer Cropscience Aktiengesellschaft (#786).

Phoenix's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG moved from 167 to 115 grants (0.69x 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 #2,190. See the growth leaderboard.

Showa Denko K K

589
Tohoku University

589
Kyoto University

588
Kokusai Electric

587
Phoenix Contact &… ◀

587
PPG Industries Oh…

586
North Carolina St…

585
Agilent

583
Bayer Cropscience…

583

What this shows Phoenix holds 587 patents at rank #782, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Phoenix

By rank, the assignees closest to #782 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Phoenix, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Phoenix ranks #20 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Magna Powertrain GmbH & Co KG 59 Brembo S.p.A. 59 Tokyo Institute of Technology 59 Dürr Systems AG 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

Lotte Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Xiamen Solex High-Tech Industries Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation 12.6 avg

Phoenix's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	79	13.5%
2016	61	10.4%
2017	76	12.9%
2018	52	8.9%
2019	63	10.7%
2020	42	7.2%
2021	62	10.6%
2022	43	7.3%
2023	23	3.9%
2024	49	8.3%
2025partial year	37	6.3%

Which technologies does Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 219

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 60

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 58

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 58

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 56

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 47

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 47

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 45

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 25

H01T - Spark GAPS; Overvoltage Arresters Using Spark GAPS; Sparking PLUGS; Corona DEVICES; Generating Ions TO BE Introduced Into Non-enclosed Gases 23

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 22

H01C - Resistors 22

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 20

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 19

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 18

Top 15 of 86 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

Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 37.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #782 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG against Showa Denko K.K., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.2/100 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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