Where does Ritter GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ritter GmbH ranks #42,690 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 Ritter GmbH hold?

Ritter GmbH holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Ritter GmbH's Innovation Score?

Ritter GmbH has an Innovation Score of 22.5 out of 100 (10th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ritter GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ritter GmbH'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 Ritter GmbH's patents?

Ritter GmbH's patents average 7.5 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 Ritter 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

Ritter GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Ritter GmbH focus on?

Ritter GmbH's top technology area is 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) with 2 patents, ranking #2,107 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ritter ranks #42,690 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 5 technology areas.

#42,690
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 10th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.5/100): 7.5
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R42690 · Foreign Corporation #42,690 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #42,690/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH RightHand Robotics
CPC-NARROW A61M · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: RightHand Robotics, 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 Ritter’s 22.5 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 6.7 pts (30%) Velocity 3.3 pts (15%) Breadth 7.9 pts (35%) Claim depth 4.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ritter · this assignee

22
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ritter's Innovation Score is 22.5/100 (10th percentile 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 Ritter?

Each dot is one of Ritter’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). Ritter’s own 7.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ritter's grants concentrate

Ritter GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ritter sits between RightHand Robotics, Inc. and Robert F. Nienhouse 1997 Declaration of Trust.

Ritter's three-year grant acceleration

Ritter GmbH shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Righthand Robotics

6
Rimack Holdings

6
Rimgard Sweden AB

6
Risi Stone

6
Robby Galletta En…

6
Robell Research

6
Robert Bürkle

6
Robert F Nienhous…

6
Ritter ◀

6

What this shows Ritter holds 6 patents at rank #42,690, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ritter

By rank, the assignees closest to #42,690 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Ritter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 10th percentile higher than 10% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ritter GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	16.7%
2016	2	33.3%
2019	1	16.7%
2020	1	16.7%
2023	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Ritter GmbH patent most?

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 2

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Ritter GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ritter GmbH's lead technology class is 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), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #42,690 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ritter GmbH against RightHand Robotics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.5/100 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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