Where does Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH ranks #27,648 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 System Engineering GMBH hold?

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH's Innovation Score?

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH's patents?

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH's patents average 14.5 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 System Engineering 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

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH focus on?

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH's top technology area is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification) with 3 patents. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thyssenkrupp ranks #27,648 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 18 technology areas.

#27,648
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27648 · Foreign Corporation #27,648 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,648/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH THE Sure Chill
CPC-FOCUS Y10T · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: THE Sure Chill Company Limited (±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
Thyssenkrupp System… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thyssenkrupp's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th 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 Thyssenkrupp's grants concentrate

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 30% of grants classified under Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Thyssenkrupp sits between THE Sure Chill Company Limited and TLX Technologies, LLC.

THE Sure Chill

10
Thermaltake Techn…

10
Thomas Helledays…

10
Thought Preserve

10
Tianjin Chengjian…

10
Tiense Suikerraff…

10
Tigercat Industri…

10
TLX

10
Thyssenkrupp Syst… ◀

10

What this shows Thyssenkrupp holds 10 patents at rank #27,584, 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 #27,584 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification)

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

Thyssenkrupp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	10.0%
2016	1	10.0%
2017	1	10.0%
2019	3	30.0%
2020	2	20.0%
2021	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH patent most?

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 2

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

B23B - TURNING; Boring 1

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 1

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

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 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#27,648

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.0 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

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH's lead technology class is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), 30% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y10T
Ranked #27,648 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thyssenkrupp System Engineering GMBH against THE Sure Chill Company Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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

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