Where does Wieland-werke AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wieland-werke AG ranks #6,206 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 Wieland-werke AG hold?

Wieland-werke AG holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Wieland-werke AG's Innovation Score?

Wieland-werke AG has an Innovation Score of 42.8 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Wieland-werke AG focus on?

Wieland-werke AG's top technology area is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application) with 20 patents, ranking #38 of 794 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Is Wieland-werke AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wieland-werke AG's recent grant velocity is +13% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Wieland-werke AG's patents?

Wieland-werke AG's patents average 11.0 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 Wieland-werke AG 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

Wieland-werke AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 32 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: F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wieland-werke ranks #6,206 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 32 technology areas.

#6,206
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.8/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6206 · Foreign Corporation #6,206 · 55 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,206/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH University College…
CPC-FOCUS F28F · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: University College Dublin, National University OF Ireland, Dublin (±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 Wieland-werke’s 42.8 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 13.9 pts (32%) Velocity 2.3 pts (5%) Breadth 20.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 6.6 pts (15%)

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Neopost · near

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Nippon Steel &… · near

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43
Wieland-werke · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Wieland-werke's Innovation Score is 42.8/100 (top 30% 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 Wieland-werke?

Each dot is one of Wieland-werke’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). Wieland-werke’s own 11.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Wieland-werke's grants concentrate

Wieland-werke AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 36.4% of grants classified under F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Wieland-werke sits between University College Dublin, National University OF Ireland, Dublin and Zeta Global Corp..

Wieland-werke's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Wieland-werke AG moved from 23 to 8 grants (0.35x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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Vicor

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W Schonbek

55
Whitmor

55
Youcopia Products

55
Zymeworks

55
Zeta Global

55
Wieland-werke ◀

55

What this shows Wieland-werke holds 55 patents at rank #6,204, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wieland-werke

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,204 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Wieland-werke's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wieland-werke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus), Wieland-werke ranks #38 of 794 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd. 43 Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland 43 Neopost Technologies 43 W.W. Grainger, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.0 here).

SK Siltron Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg DDP Specialty Electronic Materials US, LLC. 11.0 avg Amosense Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg

Wieland-werke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Wieland-werke AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	7.3%
2016	3	5.5%
2017	8	14.5%
2018	5	9.1%
2019	4	7.3%
2020	3	5.5%
2021	16	29.1%
2022	4	7.3%
2023	2	3.6%
2024	2	3.6%
2025partial year	4	7.3%

Which technologies does Wieland-werke AG patent most?

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 20

C22C - Alloys 19

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 14

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 10

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 7

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 6

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 4

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 4

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 4

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

H01C - Resistors 3

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

Top 15 of 32 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

Wieland-werke AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wieland-werke AG's lead technology class is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application), 36.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F28F
Ranked #6,206 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wieland-werke AG against University College Dublin, National University OF Ireland, Dublin, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.8/100 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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