Where does Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG ranks #33,073 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 Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG hold?

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG's Innovation Score?

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG has an Innovation Score of 38.9 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG's patents?

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG's patents average 14.4 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 Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG 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

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG

Q: What technology areas does Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG focus on?

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG's top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 5 patents, ranking #129 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 7 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rheinmetall ranks #33,073 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 7 technology areas.

#33,073
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.9/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33073 · Foreign Corporation #33,073 · 8 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #33,073/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Retinal Solutions
CPC-NARROW F41A · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Retinal Solutions LLC (±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 Rheinmetall’s 38.9 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 7.6 pts (20%) Velocity 13.3 pts (34%) Breadth 9.4 pts (24%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (22%)

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What this shows Rheinmetall's Innovation Score is 38.9/100 (top 40% 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 Rheinmetall?

Each dot is one of Rheinmetall’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). Rheinmetall’s own 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Rheinmetall's grants concentrate

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 62.5% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Rheinmetall sits between Retinal Solutions LLC and Rios Intelligent Machines, Inc..

Rheinmetall's three-year grant acceleration

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

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What this shows Rheinmetall holds 8 patents at rank #33,014, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rheinmetall

By rank, the assignees closest to #33,014 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Rheinmetall's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% 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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Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	37.5%
2019	1	12.5%
2022	1	12.5%
2024	1	12.5%
2025partial year	2	25.0%

Which technologies does Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 5

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 2

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 1

F41F - Apparatus FOR Launching Projectiles OR Missiles From Barrels, e.g. Cannons ; Launchers FOR Rockets OR TORPEDOES; Harpoon Guns 1

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 1

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG's lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 62.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #33,073 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rheinmetall AIR Defence AG against Retinal Solutions LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.9/100 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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