Where does Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH ranks #16,363 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 VAI Metals Technologies GMBH hold?

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH's Innovation Score?

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH focus on?

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH's top technology area is Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods) with 8 patents, ranking #895 of 4,985 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

Is Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 VAI Metals Technologies GMBH's patents?

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH's patents average 13.9 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 VAI Metals Technologies 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

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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: Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Siemens ranks #16,363 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 23 technology areas.

#16,363
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16363 · Foreign Corporation #16,363 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,363/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen Lianda…
CPC-FOCUS Y02P · 23 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Lianda Technology Industrial 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.

How Siemens’s 35.5 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 10.2 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 17.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Siemens VAI Metals · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Siemens's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 Siemens?

Each dot is one of Siemens’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). Siemens’s own 13.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Siemens's grants concentrate

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (12 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2016. By volume, Siemens sits between Shenzhen Lianda Technology Industrial Co., Ltd and Somnics, Inc..

Shenzhen Lianda T…

18
Shenzhen Sunxing…

18
Shenzhen Super TO…

18
Shurtape

18
Silead

18
SK Materials JNC

18
Smart Iops

18
Somnics

18
Siemens VAI Metals ◀

18

What this shows Siemens holds 18 patents at rank #16,342, 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 #16,342 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production…)

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)

35 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

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 VAI Metals Technologies GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	66.7%
2016	6	33.3%

Which technologies does Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH patent most?

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 8

C21B - Manufacture OF Iron OR Steel 7

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 5

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 5

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 4

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 2

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 2

B01D - Separation 1

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 1

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 1

B61B - Railway SYSTEMS; Equipment Therefor NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 23 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

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH's lead technology class is Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02P
Ranked #16,363 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GMBH against Shenzhen Lianda Technology Industrial Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.5/100 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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