Where does Skidata Gmbh rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Skidata Gmbh ranks #7,333 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 Skidata Gmbh hold?

Skidata Gmbh holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Skidata Gmbh's Innovation Score?

Skidata Gmbh has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Skidata Gmbh's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Skidata Gmbh's recent grant velocity is -67% 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 Skidata Gmbh's patents?

Skidata Gmbh's patents average 9.1 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 Skidata 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

Skidata Gmbh

Q: What technology areas does Skidata Gmbh focus on?

Skidata Gmbh's top technology area is G07C (TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE) with 20 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 35 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: G07C (TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Skidata ranks #7,333 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 35 technology areas.

#7,333
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 9.1
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7333 · Foreign Corporation #7,333 · 45 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,333/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Robertshaw Controls
CPC-FOCUS G07C · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Robertshaw Controls Company (±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
Cognis IP Management · near

43
Jazz Pharmaceuticals… · near

43
Shanghai Institute O… · near

43
Skidata · this assignee

43
Hangzhou ZERO ZERO T… · near

43
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Skidata Gmbh stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #7,333 of 50,000; Innovation Score 42.9/100 sits in the top 29% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Robertshaw Controls Company (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Skidata Gmbh has been granted 45 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Skidata Gmbh at #7,333 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 35 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 9.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in G07C (TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FO). As a Foreign Corporation, Skidata Gmbh is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Skidata sits between Robertshaw Controls Company (45 patents, rank #7,320) and Synology Inc. (45 patents, rank #7,328) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 42.9/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 11 grants, compared with 33 in the 2015–2019 window, a -67% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Skidata Gmbh's 9.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 35 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Robertshaw Contro…

45
Sartorius LAB Ins…

45
SCG Chemicals

45
Seiko Precision

45
SKY TECH

45
STAR Micronics

45
Styra

45
Synology

45
Skidata ◀

45

What this shows Skidata holds 45 patents at rank #7,324, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Skidata

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,324 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07C (TIME OR Attendance Registers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Cognis IP Management Gmbh 43 Jazz Pharmaceuticals Ireland Limited 43 Shanghai Institute OF Materia Medica, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 43 Hangzhou ZERO ZERO Technology Co., Ltd. 43

Skidata's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 50,000 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

Skidata Gmbh patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	13.3%
2016	5	11.1%
2017	5	11.1%
2018	7	15.6%
2019	10	22.2%
2020	4	8.9%
2022	3	6.7%
2023	2	4.4%
2024	2	4.4%
2025partial year	1	2.2%

Which technologies does Skidata Gmbh patent most?

G07C - TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 20

G06Q - INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 13

G07B - TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS 11

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 8

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 6

E06B - FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES 5

E01F - ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE 5

G07F - COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS 5

G06K - GRAPHICAL DATA READING ; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS 5

E05F - DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING 4

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 4

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 4

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 4

H04B - TRANSMISSION 4

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 2

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,333

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.9 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

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