Where does Siemens Aktiengesellschaft rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Siemens Aktiengesellschaft ranks #54 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 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft hold?

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft holds 7,003 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 366 technology areas.

What is Siemens Aktiengesellschaft's Innovation Score?

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft has an Innovation Score of 67.9 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%).

Is Siemens Aktiengesellschaft's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft's recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft's patents?

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft's patents average 13.8 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 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 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

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Q: What technology areas does Siemens Aktiengesellschaft focus on?

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft's top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 954 patents. Grants appear in 366 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7,003 granted patents across 366 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Siemens ranks #54 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7,003 patents across 366 technology areas.

#54
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.9/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R54 · Foreign Corporation #54 · 7,003 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 7.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #54/49,997
NEAR-PEER Applied Materials
CPC-BROAD G05B · 366 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Applied Materials, Inc. (±6 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
Cable Television… · near

68
Aurora Flight… · near

68
Siemens Aktiengesell… · this assignee

68
BlackBerry · near

68
L'Oreal · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Siemens's Innovation Score is 67.9/100 (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.

How Siemens's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft received 2,024 grants versus 4,724 in 2015–2019 (-57% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 1,057 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 306. Lead class G05B accounts for 13.6% of the portfolio across 366 subclasses. Volume neighbours: EMC IP Holding Company LLC (#50) and The Regents of the University of California (#58).

Siemens's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft moved from 1,734 to 1,053 grants (0.61x 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 #2,431. See the growth leaderboard.

EMC IP Holding

7,359
Oracle Internatio…

7,343
KIA Motors

7,264
Honeywell Interna…

7,183
Siemens Aktienges… ◀

7,003
Applied Materials

6,997
LG Chem

6,727
Covidien

6,485
The Regents of th…

6,428

What this shows Siemens holds 7,003 patents at rank #54, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Siemens

By rank, the assignees closest to #54 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company 68 BlackBerry Limited 68 Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. 68 L'Oreal 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.8 here).

UNIVERSITÉ D'aix-marseille 13.8 avg Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. 13.8 avg ZF Automotive UK Limited 13.8 avg eYs3D Microelectronics, Co. 13.8 avg

Siemens's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 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.

View data table

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,057	15.1%
2016	1,041	14.9%
2017	966	13.8%
2018	897	12.8%
2019	763	10.9%
2020	546	7.8%
2021	425	6.1%
2022	412	5.9%
2023	306	4.4%
2024	335	4.8%
2025partial year	255	3.6%

Which technologies does Siemens Aktiengesellschaft patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 954

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 944

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 924

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 683

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 664

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 603

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 444

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 437

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 399

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 377

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 368

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 362

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 347

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 288

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 267

Top 15 of 366 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#54

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

67.9 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

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft's lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 13.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #54 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Siemens Aktiengesellschaft against EMC IP Holding Company LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.9/100 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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