Where does Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG ranks #153 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 Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG hold?

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG holds 2,548 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 175 technology areas.

What is Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 66.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG focus on?

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 820 patents, ranking #4 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 175 CPC subclasses total.

Is Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -11% 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 Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG's patents?

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG's patents average 14.3 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 Schaeffler Technologies AG & 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

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,548 granted patents across 175 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Schaeffler ranks #153 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,548 patents across 175 technology areas.

#153
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.0/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R153 · Foreign Corporation #153 · 2,548 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #153/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH United Services…
CPC-WIDE F16H · 175 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (±1 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 Schaeffler’s 66.0 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 27.1 pts (41%) Velocity 5.4 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The Trustees of the… · near

66
Howmedica Osteonics · near

66
Schaeffler & KG · this assignee

66
Beijing Goldwind… · near

66
Qorvo US · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Schaeffler's Innovation Score is 66.0/100 (top 1% 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 Schaeffler?

Each dot is one of Schaeffler’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). Schaeffler’s own 14.3 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Schaeffler's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG received 1,110 grants versus 1,247 in 2015–2019 (-11% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 273 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 166. Lead class F16H accounts for 32.2% of the portfolio across 175 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC (#149) and Raytheon Technologies Corporation (#157).

Schaeffler's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG moved from 765 to 618 grants (0.81x 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 #1,816. See the growth leaderboard.

Semiconductor Com…

2,555
Omron

2,552
Commscope

2,550
United Services A…

2,549
Schaeffler & KG ◀

2,548
Nichia

2,544
Advanced Micro De…

2,513
T-mobile USA

2,513
Raytheon

2,501

What this shows Schaeffler holds 2,548 patents at rank #153, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Schaeffler

By rank, the assignees closest to #153 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Schaeffler, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16H (Gearing), Schaeffler ranks #4 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Howmedica Osteonics Corp. 66 Beijing Goldwind Science & Creation Windpower Equipment Co., Ltd. 66 Qorvo US, Inc. 66 The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (HSC) 14.3 avg Fluke Corporation 14.3 avg Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH 14.3 avg AutoStore Technology AS 14.3 avg

Schaeffler's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	247	9.7%
2016	190	7.5%
2017	273	10.7%
2018	264	10.4%
2019	273	10.7%
2020	248	9.7%
2021	244	9.6%
2022	211	8.3%
2023	166	6.5%
2024	241	9.5%
2025partial year	191	7.5%

Which technologies does Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG patent most?

F16H - Gearing 820

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 738

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 490

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 414

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 321

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 233

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 231

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 209

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 192

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 153

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 78

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 60

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 54

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 46

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 43

Top 15 of 175 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

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 32.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #153 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG against Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.0/100 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.

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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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