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W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, W&h ranks #6,859 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 32 technology areas.

#6,859
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.1/100)
20.6
avg claims per patent
-37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6859 · Foreign Corporation #6,859 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
  • UPPER-Q #6,859/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ultratech
  • CPC-FOCUS A61C · 32 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 53.1/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DOWN -37% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ultratech (±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 W&h’s 53.1 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around W&h

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows W&h's Innovation Score is 53.1/100 (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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for W&h?

Each dot is one of W&h’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). W&h’s own 20.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

W&h vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 48.949.049.04949.049.049.1 141618202224 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent UNIVERSITÉ Catholique DE Louvain - 49, 14.71UniversitÉ Cathol…Ultratech - 49, 17.59UltratechV-Wave Ltd. - 49, 22.55V-waveVarel International IND., L.L.C. - 49, 19.02Varel Internation…Walter AG - 49, 16.63WalterWelldoc, Inc. - 49, 17.98WelldocXaar Technology Limited - 49, 17.82Xaar TechnologyYamazaki Mazak Corporation - 49, 15.47Yamazaki MazakW&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH - 49, 20.61W&H Dentalwerk Bü…
W&h vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where W&h's grants concentrate

W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 93.9% of grants classified under A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, W&h sits between UNIVERSITÉ Catholique DE Louvain and Yamazaki Mazak Corporation.

W&h's three-year grant acceleration

W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Who files at W&H's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows W&H holds 49 patents at rank #6,857, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near W&H

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,857 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61C (Dentistry)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in W&H's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for W&H, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61C (Dentistry), W&H ranks #17 of 546 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Saint-Gobain Placo 53 European Space Agency 53 Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. 53 Automotive Research & Testing Center 53

W&h'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

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 6 12.2%
2016 4 8.2%
2017 9 18.4%
2018 7 14.3%
2019 4 8.2%
2020 5 10.2%
2021 2 4.1%
2022 4 8.2%
2023 2 4.1%
2024 6 12.2%

Which technologies does W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH patent most?

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH's lead technology class is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene), 93.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61C
  • Ranked #6,859 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH against UNIVERSITÉ Catholique DE Louvain, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 53.1/100 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

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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

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.