Where does Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH ranks #3,390 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 Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH hold?

Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH holds 109 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH's Innovation Score?

Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH has an Innovation Score of 52.8 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH's recent grant velocity is +49% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH's patents?

Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH's patents average 18.0 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 Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau 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

Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH focus on?

Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH's top technology area is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps) with 55 patents, ranking #10 of 587 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 109 granted patents across 33 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: F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bitzer ranks #3,390 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 109 patents across 33 technology areas.

#3,390
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.8/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: +49%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3390 · Foreign Corporation #3,390 · 109 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 109 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,390/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 8 Rivers Capital
CPC-FOCUS F04C · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +49% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC (±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 Bitzer’s 52.8 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 16.2 pts (31%) Velocity 5.4 pts (10%) Breadth 20.3 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Astrazeneca AB · near

53
Bitzer Kühlmaschinen… · this assignee

53
Earlens · near

53
Faurecia Emissions… · near

53
Gree Holdings · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bitzer's Innovation Score is 52.8/100 (top 10% 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 Bitzer?

Each dot is one of Bitzer’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). Bitzer’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bitzer's grants concentrate

Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 50.5% of grants classified under F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (15 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2016. By volume, Bitzer sits between West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. and Decathlon.

Bitzer's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH moved from 38 to 31 grants (0.82x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,786. See the growth leaderboard.

West Pharmaceutic…

110
8 Rivers Capital

109
Arcam AB

109
Aspire North Amer…

109
BL

109
Boa Technology

109
Cybersonics

109
Decathlon

109
Bitzer Kühlmaschi… ◀

109

What this shows Bitzer holds 109 patents at rank #3,390, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bitzer

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,390 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bitzer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04C (Rotary-piston), Bitzer ranks #10 of 587 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC 53 Earlens Corporation 53 Astrazeneca AB 53 Gree Holdings, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 18.0 avg Thorlabs, Inc. 18.0 avg Oregon Health & Science University 18.0 avg Lotes Co., Ltd 18.0 avg

Bitzer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	11.9%
2016	5	4.6%
2017	5	4.6%
2018	10	9.2%
2019	8	7.3%
2020	15	13.8%
2021	15	13.8%
2022	14	12.8%
2023	9	8.3%
2024	8	7.3%
2025partial year	7	6.4%

Which technologies does Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 55

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 29

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 20

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 14

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 8

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 4

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 3

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 3

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 3

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

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

Top 15 of 33 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

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

Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH's lead technology class is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps), 50.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #3,390 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH against West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.8/100 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

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