Where does Wipotec GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wipotec GmbH ranks #9,165 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 Wipotec GmbH hold?

Wipotec GmbH holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Wipotec GmbH's Innovation Score?

Wipotec GmbH has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Wipotec GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wipotec GmbH's recent grant velocity is +340% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Wipotec GmbH's patents?

Wipotec 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 Wipotec 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

Wipotec GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Wipotec GmbH focus on?

Wipotec GmbH's top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 16 patents, ranking #119 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wipotec ranks #9,165 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 18 technology areas.

#9,165
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +340%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9165 · Foreign Corporation #9,165 · 35 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,165/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH enVerid Systems
CPC-FOCUS B65G · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +340% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: enVerid Systems, Inc. (±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 Wipotec’s 57.5 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 12.4 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 15.0 pts (26%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing Xiaomi… · near

58
Cornerstone… · near

58
Praxair Technology · near

58
Trax Technology… · near

58
Wipotec · this assignee

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wipotec's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 Wipotec?

Each dot is one of Wipotec’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). Wipotec’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Wipotec's grants concentrate

Wipotec GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 45.7% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Wipotec sits between Woobo Tech Co., Ltd. and fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG.

Wipotec's three-year grant acceleration

Wipotec GmbH shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Woobo Tech

35
WWW Trustscience…

35
Wenger Manufactur…

35
Whitestar Communi…

35
Zama Japan

35
Zenithen USA

35
enverid Systems

35
fischerwerke & KG

35
Wipotec ◀

35

What this shows Wipotec holds 35 patents at rank #9,166, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wipotec

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,166 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wipotec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices), Wipotec ranks #119 of 1,746 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. 58 Beijing Xiaomi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. 58 Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd. 58 Praxair Technology, Inc. 58

Wipotec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Wipotec GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	11.4%
2019	1	2.9%
2020	2	5.7%
2021	2	5.7%
2022	10	28.6%
2023	3	8.6%
2024	5	14.3%
2025partial year	8	22.9%

Which technologies does Wipotec GmbH patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 16

G01G - Weighing 15

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 1

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

Top 15 of 18 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

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

Wipotec GmbH's lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 45.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #9,165 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wipotec GmbH against Woobo Tech Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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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