Where does Woodward L'Orange GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Woodward L'Orange GmbH ranks #33,914 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 Woodward L'Orange GmbH hold?

Woodward L'Orange GmbH holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Woodward L'Orange GmbH's Innovation Score?

Woodward L'Orange GmbH has an Innovation Score of 33.8 out of 100 (45th 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 Woodward L'Orange GmbH focus on?

Woodward L'Orange GmbH's top technology area is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof) with 7 patents, ranking #156 of 574 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Woodward L'Orange GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Woodward L'Orange GmbH.

What does claim depth mean for Woodward L'Orange GmbH's patents?

Woodward L'Orange GmbH's patents average 15.9 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 Woodward L'Orange 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

Woodward L'Orange GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2024. 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: F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Woodward ranks #33,914 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 8 technology areas.

#33,914
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.8/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33914 · Foreign Corporation #33,914 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #33,914/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH WiseTech Global
CPC-NARROW F02M · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2024 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: WiseTech Global 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 Woodward’s 33.8 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 7.6 pts (22%) Velocity 6.7 pts (20%) Breadth 10.0 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hitachi Aloka Medical · near

34
Shazam Investments · near

34
Unity Biotechnology · near

34
Woodward L'Orange · this assignee

34
HMicro · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Woodward's Innovation Score is 33.8/100 (45th 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 Woodward?

Each dot is one of Woodward’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). Woodward’s own 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Woodward's grants concentrate

Woodward L'Orange GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 87.5% of grants classified under F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Woodward sits between WiseTech Global Limited and Wright's Well Control Services, LLC.

Woodward's three-year grant acceleration

Woodward L'Orange GmbH shows 4 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.

Wisetech Global

8
Wolter

8
Wood Stone

8
Woodward HRT

8
Worldheart

8
Woven Metal Produ…

8
Wright Manufactur…

8
Wright's Well Con…

8
Woodward L'orange ◀

8

What this shows Woodward holds 8 patents at rank #33,902, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Woodward

By rank, the assignees closest to #33,902 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Woodward, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…), Woodward ranks #156 of 574 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Shazam Investments Ltd. 34 Hitachi Aloka Medical, Ltd. 34 Unity Biotechnology, Inc. 34 HMicro, Inc. 34

Woodward's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2024

Grants by year

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

View data table

Woodward L'Orange GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	25.0%
2021	2	25.0%
2022	1	12.5%
2023	2	25.0%
2024	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Woodward L'Orange GmbH patent most?

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 7

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 6

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 1

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 1

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 1

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Woodward L'Orange GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Woodward L'Orange GmbH's lead technology class is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02M
Ranked #33,914 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Woodward L'Orange GmbH against WiseTech Global Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.