Where does BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG ranks #13,898 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 BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG hold?

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +33% 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 BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 17.8 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 BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau 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

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau 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 19 patents, ranking #321 of 4,378 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Brückner ranks #13,898 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 14 technology areas.

#13,898
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13898 · Foreign Corporation #13,898 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #13,898/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Badger Meter
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Badger Meter, 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 Brückner’s 38.3 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 10.7 pts (28%) Velocity 3.7 pts (10%) Breadth 13.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (28%)

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What this shows Brückner's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Brückner?

Each dot is one of Brückner’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). Brückner’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Brückner's grants concentrate

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 90.5% 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 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Brückner sits between Blendtec, Inc. and Bio2 Medical, Inc..

Brückner's three-year grant acceleration

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

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Brightway Vision

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Bio2 Medical

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What this shows BRÜCKNER holds 21 patents at rank #13,886, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BRÜCKNER

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,886 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Brückner's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.8%
2016	1	4.8%
2017	1	4.8%
2018	4	19.0%
2019	2	9.5%
2020	3	14.3%
2021	4	19.0%
2022	4	19.0%
2023	1	4.8%

Which technologies does BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau 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 19

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 8

B01D - Separation 2

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

B30B - Presses IN General 1

D06C - Finishing, Dressing, Tentering OR Stretching Textile Fabrics 1

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

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 1

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 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

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau 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), 90.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #13,898 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BRÜCKNER Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG against Blendtec, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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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