Where does Windmöller & Hölscher KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Windmöller & Hölscher KG ranks #2,582 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 Windmöller & Hölscher KG hold?

Windmöller & Hölscher KG holds 151 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Windmöller & Hölscher KG's Innovation Score?

Windmöller & Hölscher KG has an Innovation Score of 54.6 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Windmöller & Hölscher KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Windmöller & Hölscher KG's recent grant velocity is +7% 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 Windmöller & Hölscher KG's patents?

Windmöller & Hölscher KG's patents average 13.8 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 Windmöller & Hölscher 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

Windmöller & Hölscher KG

Q: What technology areas does Windmöller & Hölscher KG focus on?

Windmöller & Hölscher KG's top technology area is B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing) with 68 patents, ranking #83 of 4,378 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 151 granted patents across 45 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: B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Windmöller ranks #2,582 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 151 patents across 45 technology areas.

#2,582
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.6/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: +7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2582 · Foreign Corporation #2,582 · 151 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 151 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,582/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Postech Research…
CPC-WIDE B29C · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Postech Research and Business Development Foundation (±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 Windmöller’s 54.6 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 17.4 pts (32%) Velocity 5.3 pts (10%) Breadth 23.7 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abilene Christian… · near

55
Kandou Labs · near

55
Universite Paul… · near

55
Vanguard Internation… · near

55
Windmöller &… · this assignee

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Windmöller's Innovation Score is 54.6/100 (top 8% 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 Windmöller?

Each dot is one of Windmöller’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). Windmöller’s own 13.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Windmöller's grants concentrate

Windmöller & Hölscher KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 45% of grants classified under B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (19 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2023. By volume, Windmöller sits between Pusan National University Industry-university Cooperation Foundation and Canon Production Printing Holding B.V..

Windmöller's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Windmöller & Hölscher KG moved from 49 to 39 grants (0.80x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,853. See the growth leaderboard.

Pusan National Un…

151
Postech Research…

151
Sodick

151
Soraa Laser Diode

151
Zhejiang LAB

151
Windmöller & Höls… ◀

151
Asmo

150
Auckland Uniservi…

150
Canon Production…

150

What this shows Windmöller holds 151 patents at rank #2,582, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Windmöller

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,582 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Windmöller, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics), Windmöller ranks #83 of 4,378 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Kandou Labs SA 55 Universite Paul SABATIER—TOULOUSE III 55 Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation 55 Abilene Christian University 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.8 here).

Federal-Mogul LLC 13.8 avg Faraday Technology Corp. 13.8 avg Brady Worldwide, Inc. 13.8 avg Hanon Systems 13.8 avg

Windmöller's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Windmöller & Hölscher KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	7.3%
2016	12	7.9%
2017	18	11.9%
2018	16	10.6%
2019	13	8.6%
2020	17	11.3%
2021	19	12.6%
2022	11	7.3%
2023	10	6.6%
2024	18	11.9%
2025partial year	6	4.0%

Which technologies does Windmöller & Hölscher KG patent most?

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 68

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 35

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 22

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 19

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 18

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 16

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 12

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 12

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 11

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 10

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 8

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 5

Top 15 of 45 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Windmöller & Hölscher KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Windmöller & Hölscher KG's lead technology class is B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing), 45% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #2,582 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Windmöller & Hölscher KG against Pusan National University Industry-university Cooperation Foundation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.6/100 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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