Where does Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. ranks #13,793 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 Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. hold?

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 55.2 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +220% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patents?

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patents average 18.5 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 Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. focus on?

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 21 patents, ranking #694 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wirtz ranks #13,793 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 14 technology areas.

#13,793
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.2/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +220%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13793 · US Corporation #13,793 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,793/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Western Clinical…
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +220% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Western Clinical Engineering Ltd. (±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 Wirtz’s 55.2 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 10.8 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 13.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wirtz Manufacturing · this assignee

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wirtz's Innovation Score is 55.2/100 (top 7% 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 Wirtz?

Each dot is one of Wirtz’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). Wirtz’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Wirtz's grants concentrate

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 95.5% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Wirtz sits between Western Clinical Engineering Ltd. and Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc..

Wirtz's three-year grant acceleration

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Western Clinical…

22
Wideorbit

22
Willo 32 SAS

22
Wilson Wolf Manuf…

22
World View Enterp…

22
Wright State Univ…

22
X-body

22
Xeris Pharmaceuti…

22
Wirtz Manufacturi… ◀

22

What this shows Wirtz holds 22 patents at rank #13,789, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wirtz

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,789 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Wirtz's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	9.1%
2017	2	9.1%
2019	1	4.5%
2021	3	13.6%
2022	3	13.6%
2023	2	9.1%
2024	8	36.4%
2025partial year	1	4.5%

Which technologies does Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 21

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 20

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 8

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 5

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 1

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

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

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 95.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #13,793 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc. against Western Clinical Engineering Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.2/100 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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