Where does Wafios Aktiengesellschaft rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wafios Aktiengesellschaft ranks #22,019 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 Wafios Aktiengesellschaft hold?

Wafios Aktiengesellschaft holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Wafios Aktiengesellschaft's Innovation Score?

Wafios Aktiengesellschaft has an Innovation Score of 43.0 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Wafios Aktiengesellschaft focus on?

Wafios Aktiengesellschaft's top technology area is B21F (Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire) with 10 patents, ranking #7 of 133 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

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

Wafios Aktiengesellschaft's recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Wafios Aktiengesellschaft's patents?

Wafios Aktiengesellschaft's patents average 15.7 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 Wafios 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

Wafios Aktiengesellschaft

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 10 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: B21F (Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wafios ranks #22,019 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 10 technology areas.

#22,019
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.0/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22019 · Foreign Corporation #22,019 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #22,019/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vista Precision…
CPC-FOCUS B21F · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vista Precision Solutions, 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 Wafios’s 43.0 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 9.1 pts (21%) Velocity 13.3 pts (31%) Breadth 11.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
E2interactive · near

43
SLM Solutions Group · near

43
Wafios Aktiengesells… · this assignee

43
Applied Nanostructur… · near

43
AVerMedia · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wafios's Innovation Score is 43.0/100 (top 29% 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 Wafios?

Each dot is one of Wafios’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). Wafios’s own 15.7 claims/patent is at or below the 18.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Wafios's grants concentrate

Wafios Aktiengesellschaft is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 76.9% of grants classified under B21F (Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Wafios sits between Vista Precision Solutions, Inc. and Well Stone Co..

Wafios's three-year grant acceleration

Wafios Aktiengesellschaft shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Vista Precision S…

13
Visualimits

13
Vyv

13
W2bi

13
Waterfall Securit…

13
Watergen

13
Webasto Japan

13
Well Stone

13
Wafios Aktiengese… ◀

13

What this shows Wafios holds 13 patents at rank #22,014, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wafios

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,014 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21F (Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wafios, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B21F (Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire), Wafios ranks #7 of 133 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

E2interactive, Inc. 43 SLM Solutions Group AG 43 Applied Nanostructured Solutions, LLC 43 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. 43

Wafios's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% 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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Wafios Aktiengesellschaft patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.7%
2016	4	30.8%
2017	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%
2023	1	7.7%
2025partial year	3	23.1%

Which technologies does Wafios Aktiengesellschaft patent most?

B21F - Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire 10

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 4

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 4

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 1

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

Top 10 of 10 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

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

Wafios Aktiengesellschaft's lead technology class is B21F (Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire), 76.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21F
Ranked #22,019 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wafios Aktiengesellschaft against Vista Precision Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.0/100 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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