Where does Varta Microbattery GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Varta Microbattery GMBH ranks #5,413 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 Varta Microbattery GMBH hold?

Varta Microbattery GMBH holds 64 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Varta Microbattery GMBH's Innovation Score?

Varta Microbattery GMBH has an Innovation Score of 44.4 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Varta Microbattery GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Varta Microbattery GMBH's recent grant velocity is +63% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Varta Microbattery GMBH's patents?

Varta Microbattery GMBH's patents average 15.3 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 Varta Microbattery 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

Varta Microbattery GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Varta Microbattery GMBH focus on?

Varta Microbattery GMBH's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 58 patents, ranking #256 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 64 granted patents across 19 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Varta ranks #5,413 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 64 patents across 19 technology areas.

#5,413
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.4/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: +63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5413 · Foreign Corporation #5,413 · 64 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 64 grants
UPPER-Q #5,413/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH TaeguTec
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: TaeguTec Ltd. (±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 Varta’s 44.4 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 14.4 pts (32%) Velocity 5.4 pts (12%) Breadth 15.4 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DisplayLink (UK) · near

44
Hangzhou Silicon-Mag… · near

44
Miura · near

44
Upwing Energy · near

44
Varta Microbattery · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Varta's Innovation Score is 44.4/100 (top 26% 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 Varta?

Each dot is one of Varta’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). Varta’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Varta's grants concentrate

Varta Microbattery GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 90.6% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Varta sits between TaeguTec Ltd. and ZF Automotive UK Limited.

Varta's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Varta Microbattery GMBH moved from 26 to 21 grants (0.81x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Taegutec

64
The Hershey

64
The United States…

64
University of Mai…

64
Vatech

64
W W Grainger

64
X-fab Semiconduct…

64
ZF Automotive UK

64
Varta Microbattery ◀

64

What this shows Varta holds 64 patents at rank #5,412, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Varta

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,412 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Varta, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Varta ranks #256 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

DisplayLink (UK) Limited 44 Upwing Energy, Inc. 44 Miura Co., Ltd. 44 Hangzhou Silicon-Magic Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

Federal Signal Corporation 15.3 avg Saes Getters S.P.A. 15.3 avg BEN Gurion University OF THE Negev Research AND Development Authority 15.3 avg Medicrea International 15.3 avg

Varta's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Varta Microbattery GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	7.8%
2016	4	6.3%
2017	4	6.3%
2018	3	4.7%
2019	8	12.5%
2020	4	6.3%
2021	14	21.9%
2022	11	17.2%
2023	8	12.5%
2024	2	3.1%
2025partial year	1	1.6%

Which technologies does Varta Microbattery GMBH patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 58

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 57

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 43

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 25

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 3

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 2

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 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 1

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Varta Microbattery GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Varta Microbattery GMBH's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 90.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #5,413 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Varta Microbattery GMBH against TaeguTec Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.4/100 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

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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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