Where does Voss Automotive GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Voss Automotive GmbH ranks #5,905 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 Voss Automotive GmbH hold?

Voss Automotive GmbH holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Voss Automotive GmbH's Innovation Score?

Voss Automotive GmbH has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Voss Automotive GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Voss Automotive GmbH's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Voss Automotive GmbH's patents?

Voss Automotive GmbH's patents average 18.2 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 Voss Automotive 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

Voss Automotive GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Voss Automotive GmbH focus on?

Voss Automotive GmbH's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 52 patents, ranking #25 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 21 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Voss ranks #5,905 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 21 technology areas.

#5,905
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5905 · Foreign Corporation #5,905 · 58 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,905/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH tooz
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: tooz technologies GmbH (±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 Voss’s 44.9 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 14.1 pts (31%) Velocity 3.8 pts (8%) Breadth 16.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fourstar Group · near

45
Rearden · near

45
Theranos IP · near

45
Voss Automotive · this assignee

45
Hobart Brothers · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Voss's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 24% 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 Voss?

Each dot is one of Voss’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). Voss’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Voss's grants concentrate

Voss Automotive GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 89.7% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Voss sits between University OF Cape Town and tooz technologies GmbH.

Voss's three-year grant acceleration

Voss Automotive GmbH shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

University OF Cap…

58
Uhnder

58
Universitat Polit…

58
VLT

58
Wits

58
Zhen Ding Technol…

58
Zinus

58
tooz

58
Voss Automotive ◀

58

What this shows Voss holds 58 patents at rank #5,904, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Voss

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,904 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Voss, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16L (Pipes), Voss ranks #25 of 1,907 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Rearden, LLC 45 Theranos IP Company, LLC 45 Fourstar Group Inc. 45 Hobart Brothers LLC 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Bedrock Automation Platforms Inc. 18.2 avg Young Lighting Technology Inc. 18.2 avg MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. 18.2 avg Wichita State University 18.2 avg

Voss's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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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Voss Automotive GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	12.1%
2016	5	8.6%
2017	10	17.2%
2018	8	13.8%
2019	5	8.6%
2020	6	10.3%
2021	5	8.6%
2022	3	5.2%
2023	3	5.2%
2024	3	5.2%
2025partial year	3	5.2%

Which technologies does Voss Automotive GmbH patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 52

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 24

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 10

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 8

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 5

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Voss Automotive GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Voss Automotive GmbH's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 89.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #5,905 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Voss Automotive GmbH against University OF Cape Town, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.9/100 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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