Where does Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG ranks #5,654 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 Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG hold?

Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 48.3 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG focus on?

Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating) with 40 patents, ranking #38 of 1,836 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +389% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG's patents?

Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG's patents average 15.5 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 Buerkert Werke 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

Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Buerkert ranks #5,654 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 27 technology areas.

#5,654
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.3/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: +389%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5654 · Foreign Corporation #5,654 · 60 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,654/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acorn Engineering
CPC-FOCUS F16K · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +389% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acorn Engineering Company (±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 Buerkert’s 48.3 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 14.2 pts (29%) Velocity 6.4 pts (13%) Breadth 18.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Buerkert Werke & KG · this assignee

48
Fast IP · near

48
Lingdong Technology… · near

48
Wabco Europe Bvba · near

48
Yokowo · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Buerkert's Innovation Score is 48.3/100 (top 17% 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 Buerkert?

Each dot is one of Buerkert’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). Buerkert’s own 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Buerkert's grants concentrate

Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (12 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2024. By volume, Buerkert sits between ARC Devices Limited and CYTONOME/ST, LLC.

Buerkert's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG moved from 27 to 26 grants (0.96x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

ARC Devices

60
Asahi Kasei Medic…

60
Acorn Engineering

60
Automation Anywhe…

60
Blackmagic Design…

60
Breathe

60
Cytokinetics

60
Cytonome/ST

60
Buerkert Werke &… ◀

60

What this shows Buerkert holds 60 patents at rank #5,651, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Buerkert

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,651 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Buerkert, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16K (Valves), Buerkert ranks #38 of 1,836 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Fast IP, LLC 48 Wabco Europe Bvba 48 Yokowo Co., Ltd. 48 Lingdong Technology (BEIJING) Co. Ltd. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

ClevX, LLC 15.5 avg ColdQuanta, Inc. 15.5 avg Nanoco Technologies, Ltd. 15.5 avg Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH 15.5 avg

Buerkert's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	9	15.0%
2020	8	13.3%
2021	10	16.7%
2022	8	13.3%
2023	12	20.0%
2024	6	10.0%
2025partial year	7	11.7%

Which technologies does Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG patent most?

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 40

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 6

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

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

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

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

Top 15 of 27 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

Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG's lead technology class is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16K
Ranked #5,654 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG against ARC Devices Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.3/100 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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