Where does thyssenkrupp AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), thyssenkrupp AG ranks #676 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 thyssenkrupp AG hold?

thyssenkrupp AG holds 665 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 200 technology areas.

What is thyssenkrupp AG's Innovation Score?

thyssenkrupp AG has an Innovation Score of 60.9 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does thyssenkrupp AG focus on?

thyssenkrupp AG's top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 267 patents, ranking #18 of 1,368 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 200 CPC subclasses total.

Is thyssenkrupp AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

thyssenkrupp AG's recent grant velocity is +201% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for thyssenkrupp AG's patents?

thyssenkrupp AG's patents average 14.1 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 thyssenkrupp 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

thyssenkrupp AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 665 granted patents across 200 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, thyssenkrupp ranks #676 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 665 patents across 200 technology areas.

#676
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.9/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: +201%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R676 · Foreign Corporation #676 · 665 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 665 grants
TOP-DECILE #676/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Groupon
CPC-BROAD B62D · 200 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +201% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Groupon, Inc. (±1 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 thyssenkrupp’s 60.9 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 22.5 pts (37%) Velocity 5.0 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Asahi Kasei · near

61
Eagle Industry · near

61
Schneider Electric… · near

61
thyssenkrupp · this assignee

61
Baker Hughes a GE · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows thyssenkrupp's Innovation Score is 60.9/100 (top 3% 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 thyssenkrupp?

Each dot is one of thyssenkrupp’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). thyssenkrupp’s own 14.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How thyssenkrupp's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, thyssenkrupp AG received 469 grants versus 156 in 2015–2019 (+201% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 128 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 1. Lead class B62D accounts for 40.2% of the portfolio across 200 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kuraray Co., Ltd. (#672) and Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (#680).

thyssenkrupp's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, thyssenkrupp AG moved from 334 to 249 grants (0.75x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,999. See the growth leaderboard.

Kuraray

669
King Abdullah Uni…

669
Socionext

668
Takeda Pharmaceut…

668
thyssenkrupp ◀

665
Groupon

664
Boehringer Ingelh…

662
Datang Mobile Com…

661
Ordos Yuansheng O…

661

What this shows thyssenkrupp holds 665 patents at rank #676, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near thyssenkrupp

By rank, the assignees closest to #676 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for thyssenkrupp, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B62D (Motor Vehicles), thyssenkrupp ranks #18 of 1,368 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Schneider Electric Industries SAS 61 Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha 61 Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC 61 Eagle Industry Co., Ltd. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.1 here).

Akamai Technologies, Inc. 14.1 avg NEC Laboratories America, Inc. 14.1 avg Tsinghua University 14.1 avg Delphi Technologies IP Limited 14.1 avg

thyssenkrupp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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thyssenkrupp AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	0.2%
2017	3	0.5%
2018	38	5.7%
2019	114	17.1%
2020	128	19.2%
2021	92	13.8%
2022	100	15.0%
2023	49	7.4%
2024	100	15.0%
2025partial year	40	6.0%

Which technologies does thyssenkrupp AG patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 267

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 77

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 68

F16H - Gearing 53

B66B - ELEVATORS; Escalators OR Moving Walkways 39

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 38

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 38

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 38

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 38

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 35

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 33

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 30

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 24

C22C - Alloys 23

B01D - Separation 23

Top 15 of 200 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

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

thyssenkrupp AG's lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 40.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #676 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare thyssenkrupp AG against Kuraray Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.9/100 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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