Where does WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER ranks #7,963 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 WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER hold?

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER's Innovation Score?

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER has an Innovation Score of 55.5 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 WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER focus on?

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 17 patents, ranking #1,331 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

Is WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER's patents?

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER's patents average 14.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER

Q: How is the WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER 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 PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 48 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Westfälische ranks #7,963 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 48 technology areas.

#7,963
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.5/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7963 · Foreign Corporation #7,963 · 41 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,963/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Versa Networks
CPC-WIDE A61K · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Versa Networks, 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 Westfälische’s 55.5 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 12.9 pts (23%) Velocity 9.5 pts (17%) Breadth 24.5 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Zeta Global · near

56
Profile Products L L C · near

56
Suunto Oy · near

56
Versitech · near

56
WESTFÄLISCHE… · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Westfälische's Innovation Score is 55.5/100 (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 Westfälische?

Each dot is one of Westfälische’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). Westfälische’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Westfälische's grants concentrate

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 41.5% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Westfälische sits between Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. and Zhejiang Chint Electrics Co., Ltd..

Westfälische's three-year grant acceleration

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Voyager Therapeut…

41
Versa Networks

41
Vitaworks IP

41
Volvo Group Canada

41
Wuhan Kaidi Engin…

41
Ward-kraft

41
Worthington Indus…

41
Zhejiang Chint El…

41
WestfÄLische Wilh… ◀

41

What this shows WESTFÄLISCHE holds 41 patents at rank #7,962, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near WESTFÄLISCHE

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,962 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for WESTFÄLISCHE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), WESTFÄLISCHE ranks #1,331 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Suunto Oy 56 Profile Products L.L.C. 56 Versitech Limited 56 Zeta Global Corp. 56

Westfälische's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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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WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	14.6%
2016	5	12.2%
2017	5	12.2%
2018	6	14.6%
2019	4	9.8%
2020	1	2.4%
2021	2	4.9%
2022	6	14.6%
2023	1	2.4%
2024	3	7.3%
2025partial year	2	4.9%

Which technologies does WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 17

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 12

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 9

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 9

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 8

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 7

C12Y - Enzymes 7

C07K - Peptides 7

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 7

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

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 5

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 5

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 4

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

Top 15 of 48 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

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 41.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #7,963 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER against Voyager Therapeutics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.5/100 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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