Where does Wintershall Holding GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wintershall Holding GmbH ranks #19,353 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 Wintershall Holding GmbH hold?

Wintershall Holding GmbH holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Wintershall Holding GmbH's Innovation Score?

Wintershall Holding GmbH has an Innovation Score of 32.9 out of 100 (43rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Wintershall Holding GmbH focus on?

Wintershall Holding GmbH's top technology area is C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere) with 7 patents, ranking #374 of 1,605 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Wintershall Holding GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wintershall Holding GmbH's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Wintershall Holding GmbH's patents?

Wintershall Holding GmbH's patents average 16.9 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 Wintershall Holding GmbH 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

Wintershall Holding GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wintershall ranks #19,353 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 14 technology areas.

#19,353
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.9/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19353 · Foreign Corporation #19,353 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,353/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Whitefox
CPC-FOCUS C09K · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Whitefox Technologies Limited (±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 Wintershall’s 32.9 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 9.6 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 13.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Wintershall Holding · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Wintershall's Innovation Score is 32.9/100 (43rd 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 Wintershall?

Each dot is one of Wintershall’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). Wintershall’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Wintershall's grants concentrate

Wintershall Holding GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 46.7% of grants classified under C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Wintershall sits between Whitefox Technologies Limited and Xact Robotics Ltd..

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Wimo Labs

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Xact Robotics

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15

What this shows Wintershall holds 15 patents at rank #19,348, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wintershall

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,348 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications)

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

Wintershall's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Wintershall Holding GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	26.7%
2016	5	33.3%
2017	2	13.3%
2018	3	20.0%
2019	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Wintershall Holding GmbH patent most?

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 7

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 4

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 3

C12Y - Enzymes 2

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B01D - Separation 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 1

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 1

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Wintershall Holding GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wintershall Holding GmbH's lead technology class is C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere), 46.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09K
Ranked #19,353 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wintershall Holding GmbH against Whitefox Technologies Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.9/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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