Where does Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH ranks #6,381 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 Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH hold?

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH's Innovation Score?

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH has an Innovation Score of 61.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH's recent grant velocity is +208% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH's patents?

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH's patents average 18.5 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH focus on?

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH's top technology area is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps) with 42 patents. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive 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 PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Schwäbische ranks #6,381 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 26 technology areas.

#6,381
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.1/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +208%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6381 · Foreign Corporation #6,381 · 53 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,381/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ruckus Wireless
CPC-FOCUS F04C · 26 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +208% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ruckus Wireless, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Colorado State… · near

61
Electrolux Home… · near

61
Schwäbische… · this assignee

61
Danfoss A/S · near

61
Nordson · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Schwäbische's Innovation Score is 61.1/100 (top 3% 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.

Where Schwäbische's grants concentrate

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 79.2% of grants classified under F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Schwäbische sits between Ruckus Wireless, Inc. and Takara BIO Inc..

Schwäbische's three-year grant acceleration

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH shows 30 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.

Ruckus Wireless

53
Shenzhen Yinglaif…

53
Silicon Graphics…

53
Sumo Logic

53
Shoretel

53
Solaria

53
Suprema

53
Takara BIO

53
Schwäbische Hütte… ◀

53

What this shows Schwäbische holds 53 patents at rank #6,382, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Schwäbische

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,382 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Schwäbische, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Colorado State University Research Foundation 61 Electrolux Home Products, Inc. 61 Danfoss A/S 61 Nordson Corporation 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

Transocean Sedco Forex Ventures Limited 18.5 avg Nice Ltd. 18.5 avg EMC IP Holding Company LLC 18.5 avg Peloton Technology, Inc. 18.5 avg

Schwäbische's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	7.5%
2016	1	1.9%
2017	1	1.9%
2018	6	11.3%
2019	1	1.9%
2020	7	13.2%
2021	3	5.7%
2022	8	15.1%
2023	13	24.5%
2024	9	17.0%

Which technologies does Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 42

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 19

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 8

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 6

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 4

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 4

F16H - Gearing 4

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 3

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 2

B01D - Separation 2

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 1

F16N - Lubricating 1

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,381

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH's lead technology class is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps), 79.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #6,381 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH against Ruckus Wireless, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.1/100 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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