Where does Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH ranks #1,712 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 Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH hold?

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH holds 239 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 83 technology areas.

What is Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH's Innovation Score?

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH has an Innovation Score of 55.3 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH focus on?

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 93 patents, ranking #9 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 83 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH's recent grant velocity is +115% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH's patents?

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH's patents average 9.8 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 Vorwerk & Co. Interholding 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

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 239 granted patents across 83 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vorwerk ranks #1,712 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 239 patents across 83 technology areas.

#1,712
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.3/100): 9.8
avg claims per patent: +115%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1712 · Foreign Corporation #1,712 · 239 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 239 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,712/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Entit Software
CPC-WIDE A47J · 83 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +115% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Entit Software LLC (±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 Vorwerk’s 55.3 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 18.9 pts (34%) Velocity 5.4 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 5.9 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amorepacific · near

55
Ecole Polytechnique · near

55
Jumio · near

55
Vorwerk & Interholding · this assignee

55
Xiaomi · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vorwerk's Innovation Score is 55.3/100 (top 7% 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 Vorwerk?

Each dot is one of Vorwerk’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). Vorwerk’s own 9.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Vorwerk's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH received 155 grants versus 72 in 2015–2019 (+115% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 41 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class A47J accounts for 38.9% of the portfolio across 83 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Entit Software LLC (#1,708) and KING.COM Limited (#1,716).

Vorwerk's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH moved from 101 to 82 grants (0.81x 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 #1,799. See the growth leaderboard.

Entit Software

239
Medtronic Xomed

239
Nikkiso

239
Theravance Biopha…

239
ZKW Group

239
Vorwerk & Interho… ◀

239
Alipay (Hangzhou)…

238
Children's Hospit…

238
KING COM

238

What this shows Vorwerk holds 239 patents at rank #1,712, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vorwerk

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,712 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vorwerk, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Vorwerk ranks #9 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Amorepacific Corporation 55 Xiaomi 55 Ecole Polytechnique 55 Jumio Corporation 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.8 here).

Getac Technology Corporation 9.8 avg Axis AB 9.8 avg Eizo Corporation 9.8 avg Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. 9.8 avg

Vorwerk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	1.3%
2016	21	8.8%
2017	6	2.5%
2018	14	5.9%
2019	28	11.7%
2020	41	17.2%
2021	32	13.4%
2022	37	15.5%
2023	18	7.5%
2024	27	11.3%
2025partial year	12	5.0%

Which technologies does Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 93

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 92

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 49

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 20

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 16

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 13

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 9

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 8

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 7

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

Top 15 of 83 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

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 38.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #1,712 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GMBH against Entit Software LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.3/100 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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