Where does Richard Wolf GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Richard Wolf GMBH ranks #10,159 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 Richard Wolf GMBH hold?

Richard Wolf GMBH holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Richard Wolf GMBH's Innovation Score?

Richard Wolf GMBH has an Innovation Score of 41.9 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Richard Wolf GMBH focus on?

Richard Wolf GMBH's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 30 patents, ranking #624 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Richard Wolf GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Richard Wolf GMBH's recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Richard Wolf GMBH's patents?

Richard Wolf GMBH's patents average 15.3 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 Richard Wolf 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

Richard Wolf GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 25 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Richard ranks #10,159 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 25 technology areas.

#10,159
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10159 · Foreign Corporation #10,159 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,159/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Quantum Metric
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Quantum Metric, 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 Richard’s 41.9 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 12.0 pts (29%) Velocity 3.0 pts (7%) Breadth 17.7 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GE Sensing &… · near

42
Ordnance Survey · near

42
Richard Wolf · this assignee

42
Sanford-Burnham… · near

42
Ubright Optronics · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Richard's Innovation Score is 41.9/100 (top 32% 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 Richard?

Each dot is one of Richard’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). Richard’s own 15.3 claims/patent is at or below the 18.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Richard's grants concentrate

Richard Wolf GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 96.8% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Richard sits between Quantum Metric, Inc. and Ranir, LLC.

Richard's three-year grant acceleration

Richard Wolf GMBH shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Quantum Metric

31
Reeves Wireline

31
Relx

31
Resvent Medical T…

31
Riot Games

31
Ripple Luxembourg

31
Rambus Delaware

31
Ranir

31
Richard Wolf ◀

31

What this shows Richard holds 31 patents at rank #10,154, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Richard

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,154 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Richard, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Richard ranks #624 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Ordnance Survey Limited 42 GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH 42 Ubright Optronics Corporation 42 Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute 42

Richard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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Richard Wolf GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	16.1%
2017	4	12.9%
2018	4	12.9%
2019	5	16.1%
2020	5	16.1%
2021	1	3.2%
2023	2	6.5%
2024	3	9.7%
2025partial year	2	6.5%

Which technologies does Richard Wolf GMBH patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 30

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 2

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

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 1

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 1

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 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 25 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

Richard Wolf GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Richard Wolf GMBH's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 96.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #10,159 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Richard Wolf GMBH against Quantum Metric, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.9/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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