Where does Stadler Rail AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stadler Rail AG ranks #30,246 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 Stadler Rail AG hold?

Stadler Rail AG holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Stadler Rail AG's Innovation Score?

Stadler Rail AG has an Innovation Score of 31.4 out of 100 (38th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Stadler Rail AG focus on?

Stadler Rail AG's top technology area is B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Stadler Rail AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Stadler Rail AG.

What does claim depth mean for Stadler Rail AG's patents?

Stadler Rail AG's patents average 16.8 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 Stadler Rail AG 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

Stadler Rail AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stadler ranks #30,246 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 8 technology areas.

#30,246
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.4/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30246 · Foreign Corporation #30,246 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #30,246/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sportsbeams Lighting
CPC-NARROW B61D · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sportsbeams Lighting, Inc. (±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
Stadler Rail · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stadler's Innovation Score is 31.4/100 (38th percentile 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 Stadler's grants concentrate

Stadler Rail AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Stadler sits between Sportsbeams Lighting, Inc. and Star Institute of Intelligent Systems.

Stadler's three-year grant acceleration

Stadler Rail AG shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Sportsbeams Light…

9
Sprint Bioscience…

9
Spy Optic

9
St Michael's Hosp…

9
Stahl Internation…

9
Standard Alcohol…

9
Standard Motor Pr…

9
Star Institute of…

9
Stadler Rail ◀

9

What this shows Stadler holds 9 patents at rank #30,240, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stadler

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,240 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles)

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

Stadler's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 38th percentile higher than 38% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Stadler Rail AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	11.1%
2021	3	33.3%
2023	1	11.1%
2024	1	11.1%
2025partial year	3	33.3%

Which technologies does Stadler Rail AG patent most?

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 5

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 4

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

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 3

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B61G - COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#30,246

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.4 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

Stadler Rail AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stadler Rail AG's lead technology class is B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B61D
Ranked #30,246 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stadler Rail AG against Sportsbeams Lighting, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.