Where does Arburg GMBH + Co KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Arburg GMBH + Co KG ranks #10,543 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 Arburg GMBH + Co KG hold?

Arburg GMBH + Co KG holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Arburg GMBH + Co KG's Innovation Score?

Arburg GMBH + Co KG has an Innovation Score of 39.3 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Arburg GMBH + Co KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Arburg GMBH + Co KG's recent grant velocity is +80% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Arburg GMBH + Co KG's patents?

Arburg GMBH + Co KG's patents average 9.3 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 Arburg GMBH + Co 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

Arburg GMBH + Co KG

Q: What technology areas does Arburg GMBH + Co KG focus on?

Arburg GMBH + Co 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 17 patents, ranking #358 of 4,378 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 13 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, Arburg ranks #10,543 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 13 technology areas.

#10,543
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: +80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10543 · Foreign Corporation #10,543 · 29 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,543/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abu Dhabi University
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abu Dhabi University (±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 Arburg’s 39.3 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 11.7 pts (30%) Velocity 9.2 pts (23%) Breadth 12.7 pts (32%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advanced Elemental · near

39
Arburg + KG · this assignee

39
Ferton Holding · near

39
Indivior UK · near

39
NeoChord · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Arburg's Innovation Score is 39.3/100 (top 39% 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 Arburg?

Each dot is one of Arburg’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). Arburg’s own 9.3 claims/patent is at or below the 12.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Arburg's grants concentrate

Arburg GMBH + Co KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 58.6% 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 2022 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Arburg sits between Ameriforge Group Inc. and Abu Dhabi University.

Arburg's three-year grant acceleration

Arburg GMBH + Co KG shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Ameriforge Group

29
Ametek

29
Aoyama Seisakusho

29
Apogenix

29
Archery Innovators

29
Asti Global Taiwan

29
ATS

29
Abu Dhabi Univers…

29
Arburg + KG ◀

29

What this shows Arburg holds 29 patents at rank #10,532, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Arburg

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,532 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Arburg, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics), Arburg ranks #358 of 4,378 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Ferton Holding S.A. 39 NeoChord, Inc. 39 Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc. 39 Indivior UK Limited 39

Arburg's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% 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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Arburg GMBH + Co KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	6.9%
2016	2	6.9%
2017	3	10.3%
2018	2	6.9%
2019	1	3.4%
2020	3	10.3%
2021	4	13.8%
2022	5	17.2%
2023	2	6.9%
2024	4	13.8%
2025partial year	1	3.4%

Which technologies does Arburg GMBH + Co 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 17

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 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

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

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 1

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

Top 13 of 13 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

Arburg GMBH + Co KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Arburg GMBH + Co 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), 58.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #10,543 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Arburg GMBH + Co KG against Ameriforge Group Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.3/100 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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