Where does Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik ranks #17,363 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 Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik hold?

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik's Innovation Score?

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik has an Innovation Score of 32.4 out of 100 (41st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik's recent grant velocity is -45% 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 Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik's patents?

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik's patents average 15.1 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 Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik 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

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik

Q: What technology areas does Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik focus on?

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 8 patents, ranking #378 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wezag ranks #17,363 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 12 technology areas.

#17,363
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.4/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17363 · Foreign Corporation #17,363 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,363/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Wacoal
CPC-FOCUS H01R · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Wacoal Corp. (±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 Wezag’s 32.4 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 10.0 pts (31%) Velocity 1.1 pts (3%) Breadth 12.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wezag Werkzeugfabrik · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wezag's Innovation Score is 32.4/100 (41st percentile 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 Wezag?

Each dot is one of Wezag’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). Wezag’s own 15.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Wezag's grants concentrate

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 47.1% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Wezag sits between Wacoal Corp. and Waves Audio Ltd..

Wezag's three-year grant acceleration

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Wacoal

17
Wagstaff

17
Waylens

17
Weebit Nano

17
Wgrs Licensing

17
Woongjin Thinkbig

17
Watershed Geosynt…

17
Waves Audio

17
Wezag Werkzeugfab… ◀

17

What this shows Wezag holds 17 patents at rank #17,357, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wezag

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,357 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Wezag's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 41st percentile higher than 41% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	17.6%
2016	1	5.9%
2017	2	11.8%
2018	4	23.5%
2019	1	5.9%
2020	3	17.6%
2021	2	11.8%
2022	1	5.9%

Which technologies does Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik patent most?

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

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 7

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 7

B21J - FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces 3

G06M - Counting MECHANISMS; Counting OF Objects NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

B30B - Presses IN General 1

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

B25G - Handles FOR Hand Implements 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 47.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #17,363 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik against Wacoal Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.4/100 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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