Where does Siemens S.a.s rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Siemens S.a.s ranks #23,396 of 50,000 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 S.a.s hold?

Siemens S.a.s holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Siemens S.a.s's Innovation Score?

Siemens S.a.s has an Innovation Score of 41.3 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Siemens S.a.s's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Siemens S.a.s's recent grant velocity is -91% 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 S.a.s's patents?

Siemens S.a.s's patents average 16.0 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 S.a.s 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 S.a.s

Q: What technology areas does Siemens S.a.s focus on?

Siemens S.a.s's top technology area is B61L (GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: B61L (GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Siemens ranks #23,396 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 21 technology areas.

#23,396
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.3/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23396 · Foreign Corporation #23,396 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,396/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen Kimsen Tech…
CPC-FOCUS B61L · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Kimsen Technology Co., Ltd (±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
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41
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Siemens's Innovation Score is 41.3/100 (top 33% 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 Siemens's grants concentrate

Siemens S.a.s is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under B61L (GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Siemens sits between Shenzhen Kimsen Technology Co., Ltd and Silergy Corp..

Shenzhen Kimsen T…

12
Shenzhen Lepower

12
Shenzhen Zhanpusi…

12
Shin-kobe Electri…

12
Sight Machine

12
Sigma Phase

12
Signum Biosciences

12
Silergy

12
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What this shows Siemens holds 12 patents at rank #23,440, 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 #23,440 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic)

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

Siemens's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Siemens S.a.s patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	6	50.0%
2017	4	33.3%
2022	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Siemens S.a.s patent most?

B61L - GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC 4

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 3

Y04S - SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS 3

B60L - PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES ; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES ; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL ; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICL 3

H02J - CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY 3

E01B - PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS 2

B61F - RAIL VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS, e.g. UNDERFRAMES, BOGIES OR ARRANGEMENTS OF WHEEL AXLES; RAIL VEHICLES FOR USE ON TRACKS OF DIFFERENT WIDTH; PREVENTING DERAILING OF RAIL VEHICLES; WHEEL GUARDS, OBSTRUCTION REMOVERS OR THE LIKE FOR RAIL VEHICLES 2

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 2

G01P - MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT 2

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 1

H04B - TRANSMISSION 1

B05B - SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES 1

C21C - PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS 1

A62C - FIRE-FIGHTING 1

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 1

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,396

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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