Where does Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft ranks #167 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 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft hold?

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft holds 2,307 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 212 technology areas.

What is Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's Innovation Score?

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft has an Innovation Score of 66.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's recent grant velocity is +108% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's patents?

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's patents average 12.9 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 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft 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

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

Q: What technology areas does Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft focus on?

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's top technology area is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply ) with 346 patents, ranking #13 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 212 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,307 granted patents across 212 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: B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Volkswagen ranks #167 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,307 patents across 212 technology areas.

#167
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.5/100): 12.9
avg claims per patent: +108%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R167 · Foreign Corporation #167 · 2,307 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #167/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Eaton Intelligent…
CPC-BROAD B60K · 212 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +108% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited (±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 Volkswagen’s 66.5 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 26.8 pts (40%) Velocity 6.9 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fujitsu · near

66
Volkswagen Aktienges… · this assignee

66
Wuhan University · near

66
CreeLED · near

66
Xilinx · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Volkswagen's Innovation Score is 66.5/100 (top 1% 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 Volkswagen?

Each dot is one of Volkswagen’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). Volkswagen’s own 12.9 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Volkswagen's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft received 1,450 grants versus 696 in 2015–2019 (+108% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 361 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 97. Lead class B60K accounts for 15% of the portfolio across 212 subclasses. Volume neighbours: eBay Inc. (#163) and Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. (#171).

Volkswagen's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft moved from 805 to 839 grants (1.04x 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 #1,078. See the growth leaderboard.

ebay

2,351
Siemens Healthcare

2,329
Nikon

2,316
Eaton Intelligent…

2,308
Volkswagen Aktien… ◀

2,307
State Farm Mutual…

2,305
Alibaba Group Hol…

2,299
NTT Docomo

2,283
Hyundai Mobis

2,279

What this shows Volkswagen holds 2,307 patents at rank #167, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Volkswagen

By rank, the assignees closest to #167 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Volkswagen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Volkswagen ranks #13 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Fujitsu Limited 66 Wuhan University 66 Xilinx, Inc. 66 CreeLED, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.9 here).

Crrc Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. 12.9 avg Wavefront Research, Inc. 12.9 avg Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd. 12.9 avg Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH 12.9 avg

Volkswagen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	97	4.2%
2016	129	5.6%
2017	127	5.5%
2018	149	6.5%
2019	194	8.4%
2020	250	10.8%
2021	361	15.6%
2022	314	13.6%
2023	214	9.3%
2024	311	13.5%
2025partial year	161	7.0%

Which technologies does Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft patent most?

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 346

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 335

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 308

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 294

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 262

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 239

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 209

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 189

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 184

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 164

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 157

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 154

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 141

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 135

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 124

Top 15 of 212 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

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft's lead technology class is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb), 15% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #167 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft against eBay Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.5/100 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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