Where does Stabilus GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stabilus GmbH ranks #4,360 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 Stabilus GmbH hold?

Stabilus GmbH holds 82 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 53 technology areas.

What is Stabilus GmbH's Innovation Score?

Stabilus GmbH has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Stabilus GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stabilus GmbH's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Stabilus GmbH's patents?

Stabilus GmbH's patents average 12.8 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 Stabilus 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

Stabilus GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Stabilus GmbH focus on?

Stabilus GmbH's top technology area is 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) with 38 patents, ranking #13 of 501 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 53 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 82 granted patents across 53 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stabilus ranks #4,360 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 82 patents across 53 technology areas.

#4,360
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4360 · Foreign Corporation #4,360 · 82 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 82 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,360/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rush University…
CPC-WIDE E05F · 53 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rush University Medical Center (±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 Stabilus’s 52.3 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 15.3 pts (29%) Velocity 4.4 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ormco · near

52
Chargepoint · near

52
Micro Mobio · near

52
Stabilus · this assignee

52
Thorlabs · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stabilus's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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 Stabilus?

Each dot is one of Stabilus’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). Stabilus’s own 12.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Stabilus's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Stabilus GmbH received 34 grants versus 41 in 2015–2019 (-17% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 4. Lead class E05F accounts for 46.3% of the portfolio across 53 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rush University Medical Center (#4,355) and Yves Saint Laurent (#4,363).

Stabilus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Stabilus GmbH moved from 32 to 21 grants (0.66x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Rush University M…

82
South Dakota Boar…

82
Suteng Innovation…

82
Skybell

82
Ultralogic 6G

82
Usnr

82
VAN Cleef & Arpels

82
Yves Saint Laurent

82
Stabilus ◀

82

What this shows Stabilus holds 82 patents at rank #4,359, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stabilus

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,359 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E05F (Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed Position)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stabilus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E05F (Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed Position), Stabilus ranks #13 of 501 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Thorlabs, Inc. 52 Chargepoint, Inc. 52 Micro Mobio Corporation 52 Ormco Corporation 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.8 here).

Formlabs Inc. 12.8 avg Universite DE Nantes 12.8 avg National Institute FOR Materials Science 12.8 avg Orange 12.8 avg

Stabilus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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.

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Stabilus GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	8.5%
2016	6	7.3%
2017	5	6.1%
2018	4	4.9%
2019	19	23.2%
2020	5	6.1%
2021	8	9.8%
2022	5	6.1%
2023	6	7.3%
2024	10	12.2%
2025partial year	7	8.5%

Which technologies does Stabilus GmbH patent most?

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 38

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 37

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 35

F16H - Gearing 21

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 8

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 8

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 6

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 3

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 3

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 3

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Top 15 of 53 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

Stabilus GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stabilus GmbH's lead technology class is 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), 46.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E05F
Ranked #4,360 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stabilus GmbH against Rush University Medical Center, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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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