Where does Welbilt Deutschland GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Welbilt Deutschland GmbH ranks #38,296 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 Welbilt Deutschland GmbH hold?

Welbilt Deutschland GmbH holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Welbilt Deutschland GmbH's Innovation Score?

Welbilt Deutschland GmbH has an Innovation Score of 49.0 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Welbilt Deutschland GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Welbilt Deutschland GmbH.

What does claim depth mean for Welbilt Deutschland GmbH's patents?

Welbilt Deutschland GmbH'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 Welbilt Deutschland 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

Welbilt Deutschland GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Welbilt Deutschland GmbH focus on?

Welbilt Deutschland GmbH's top technology area is F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Welbilt ranks #38,296 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 16 technology areas.

#38,296
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.0/100): 12.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R38296 · Foreign Corporation #38,296 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #38,296/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Waterstone
CPC-FOCUS F24C · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Waterstone, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Welbilt Deutschland · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Welbilt's Innovation Score is 49.0/100 (top 15% 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.

Where Welbilt's grants concentrate

Welbilt Deutschland GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Welbilt sits between Waterstone, LLC and Wenger Corporation.

Welbilt's three-year grant acceleration

Welbilt Deutschland GmbH shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Waterstone

7
Weatherford Nethe…

7
Weener Plastics G…

7
Weidmann Holding

7
Wellsim Biomedical

7
Wellmark Internat…

7
Wells Lamont Indu…

7
Wenger

7
Welbilt Deutschla… ◀

7

What this shows Welbilt holds 7 patents at rank #38,299, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Welbilt

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,299 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges)

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

Welbilt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Welbilt Deutschland GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	2	28.6%
2023	1	14.3%
2024	2	28.6%
2025partial year	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Welbilt Deutschland GmbH patent most?

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 7

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 3

A21B - Bakers' OVENS; Machines OR Equipment FOR Baking 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 1

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 1

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#38,296

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Welbilt Deutschland GmbH's lead technology class is F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24C
Ranked #38,296 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Welbilt Deutschland GmbH against Waterstone, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.