Where does Wabco GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wabco GmbH ranks #2,226 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 Wabco GmbH hold?

Wabco GmbH holds 177 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Wabco GmbH's Innovation Score?

Wabco GmbH has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Wabco GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wabco GmbH's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Wabco GmbH's patents?

Wabco GmbH's patents average 15.4 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 Wabco 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

Wabco GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Wabco GmbH focus on?

Wabco GmbH's top technology area is B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes) with 100 patents, ranking #13 of 539 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 177 granted patents across 58 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted MO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wabco ranks #2,226 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 177 patents across 58 technology areas.

#2,226
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2226 · Foreign Corporation #2,226 · 177 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 177 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,226/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH LS Electric
CPC-WIDE B60T · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LS Electric Co., 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 Wabco’s 52.9 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 17.9 pts (34%) Velocity 0.8 pts (2%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chung Yuan Christian… · near

53
Mirati Therapeutics · near

53
Sensus Spectrum · near

53
UCL Business · near

53
Wabco · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wabco's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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 Wabco?

Each dot is one of Wabco’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). Wabco’s own 15.4 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.

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

How Wabco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Wabco GmbH received 49 grants versus 128 in 2015–2019 (-62% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 35 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class B60T accounts for 56.5% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: LS Electric Co., Ltd. (#2,222) and Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America (#2,230).

Wabco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Wabco GmbH moved from 60 to 7 grants (0.12x 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 #3,156. See the growth leaderboard.

LS Electric

177
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177
TRW Automotive

177
VID Scale

177
Wabco ◀

177
Institute OF Nucl…

176
Lisa Draexlmaier

176
Nokia of America

176
Panasonic Automot…

176

What this shows Wabco holds 177 patents at rank #2,226, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wabco

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,226 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wabco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof), Wabco ranks #13 of 539 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Chung Yuan Christian University 53 UCL Business PLC 53 Sensus Spectrum, LLC 53 Mirati Therapeutics, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC 15.4 avg Surmodics, Inc. 15.4 avg Magna Seating Inc. 15.4 avg Veltek Associates, Inc. 15.4 avg

Wabco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Wabco GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	19.8%
2016	17	9.6%
2017	26	14.7%
2018	32	18.1%
2019	18	10.2%
2020	28	15.8%
2021	14	7.9%
2022	6	3.4%
2023	1	0.6%

Which technologies does Wabco GmbH patent most?

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 100

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 25

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 19

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 15

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 7

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 7

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 7

F16H - Gearing 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 6

Top 15 of 58 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

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

Wabco GmbH's lead technology class is B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted MO), 56.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60T
Ranked #2,226 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wabco GmbH against LS Electric Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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

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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