Where does Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG ranks #6,976 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 Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG hold?

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +44% 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 Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG's patents?

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG's patents average 12.4 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 Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG 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

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG focus on?

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG's top technology area is G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure) with 22 patents, ranking #33 of 1,293 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 31 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: G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wika ranks #6,976 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 31 technology areas.

#6,976
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 12.4
avg claims per patent: +44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6976 · Foreign Corporation #6,976 · 48 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,976/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH entigenlogic
CPC-FOCUS G01L · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: entigenlogic 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.

How Wika’s 46.9 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 13.4 pts (29%) Velocity 6.3 pts (13%) Breadth 19.7 pts (42%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arevo · near

47
AVL Powertrain… · near

47
Cyber Power Systems · near

47
Nippon Suisan Kaisha · near

47
Wika Alexander… · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wika's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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 Wika?

Each dot is one of Wika’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). Wika’s own 12.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Wika's grants concentrate

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 45.8% of grants classified under G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Wika sits between Virent, Inc. and Össur Iceland ehf.

Wika's three-year grant acceleration

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Virent

48
Vitae Pharmaceuti…

48
Vive Health

48
Weta Digital

48
Xinjiang Goldwind…

48
Zodiac Pool Care…

48
entigenlogic

48
Össur Iceland ehf

48
Wika Alexander Wi… ◀

48

What this shows Wika holds 48 patents at rank #6,975, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wika

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,975 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01L (Measuring Force)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wika, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01L (Measuring Force), Wika ranks #33 of 1,293 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc. 47 Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd 47 Arevo, Inc. 47 Cyber Power Systems, Inc. 47

Wika's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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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Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.1%
2017	6	12.5%
2018	2	4.2%
2019	9	18.8%
2020	5	10.4%
2021	4	8.3%
2022	2	4.2%
2023	3	6.3%
2024	12	25.0%
2025partial year	4	8.3%

Which technologies does Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG patent most?

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 22

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 7

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 5

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 4

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 3

B01D - Separation 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 1

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

Top 15 of 31 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

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG's lead technology class is G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure), 45.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01L
Ranked #6,976 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG against Virent, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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

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