Where does Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH ranks #33,846 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 Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH hold?

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH's Innovation Score?

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH has an Innovation Score of 29.9 out of 100 (32nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH's patents?

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH's patents average 14.0 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 Voestalpine Precision Strip 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

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH focus on?

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH's top technology area is B23D (PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 4 patents, ranking #61 of 307 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: B23D (PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Voestalpine ranks #33,846 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 11 technology areas.

#33,846
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.9/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33846 · Foreign Corporation #33,846 · 8 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #33,846/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vital Biosciences
CPC-FOCUS B23D · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vital Biosciences 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.

How Voestalpine’s 29.9 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 7.6 pts (25%) Velocity 2.2 pts (7%) Breadth 11.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Voestalpine… · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Voestalpine's Innovation Score is 29.9/100 (32nd 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Voestalpine?

Each dot is one of Voestalpine’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). Voestalpine’s own 14.0 claims/patent is at or below the 18.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Voestalpine's grants concentrate

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under B23D (PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Voestalpine sits between Vital Biosciences Inc. and Volution Immuno Pharmaceuticals SA.

Voestalpine's three-year grant acceleration

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Vital Biosciences

8
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Vocalink Internat…

8
Vodafone Group Se…

8
Volex

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Volmary

8
Volpe and Koenig…

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Volution Immuno P…

8
Voestalpine Preci… ◀

8

What this shows Voestalpine holds 8 patents at rank #33,836, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Voestalpine

By rank, the assignees closest to #33,836 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23D (Planing)

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

Voestalpine's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	50.0%
2019	1	12.5%
2020	1	12.5%
2021	1	12.5%
2024	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH patent most?

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

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 4

C22C - Alloys 4

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 2

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 2

D21G - CALENDERS; Accessories FOR Paper-making Machines 2

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

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

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 1

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

Top 11 of 11 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

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH's lead technology class is B23D (PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23D
Ranked #33,846 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH against Vital Biosciences Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.9/100 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

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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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