Where does Burckhardt Compression AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Burckhardt Compression AG ranks #10,272 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 Burckhardt Compression AG hold?

Burckhardt Compression AG holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Burckhardt Compression AG's Innovation Score?

Burckhardt Compression AG has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Burckhardt Compression AG focus on?

Burckhardt Compression AG's top technology area is F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps) with 20 patents, ranking #53 of 1,184 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Burckhardt Compression AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Burckhardt Compression AG's recent grant velocity is +9% 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 Burckhardt Compression AG's patents?

Burckhardt Compression AG's patents average 17.0 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 Burckhardt Compression AG 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

Burckhardt Compression AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 20 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: F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Burckhardt ranks #10,272 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 20 technology areas.

#10,272
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10272 · Foreign Corporation #10,272 · 30 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,272/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Barebones Systems
CPC-FOCUS F04B · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +9% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Barebones Systems, 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 Burckhardt’s 43.7 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 11.9 pts (27%) Velocity 5.8 pts (13%) Breadth 15.8 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Allied Telesis… · near

44
Burckhardt Compression · this assignee

44
Japanese Foundation… · near

44
Kemin Industries · near

44
Universidade… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Burckhardt's Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 27% 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 Burckhardt?

Each dot is one of Burckhardt’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). Burckhardt’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 3.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Burckhardt's grants concentrate

Burckhardt Compression AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Burckhardt sits between Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH and Brava Home, Inc..

Burckhardt's three-year grant acceleration

Burckhardt Compression AG shows 7 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.

Bauer Spezialtief…

30
Botrista Technolo…

30
Bradshaw Home

30
Brose Fahrzeugtei…

30
Barebones Systems

30
Blunt Wrap U

30
Brandcore

30
Brava Home

30
Burckhardt Compre… ◀

30

What this shows Burckhardt holds 30 patents at rank #10,266, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Burckhardt

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,266 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Burckhardt, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids), Burckhardt ranks #53 of 1,184 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Allied Telesis Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha 44 Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul—UFRGS 44 Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research 44 Kemin Industries, Inc. 44

Burckhardt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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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Burckhardt Compression AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	10.0%
2016	3	10.0%
2017	1	3.3%
2018	1	3.3%
2019	3	10.0%
2020	4	13.3%
2021	1	3.3%
2022	4	13.3%
2023	3	10.0%
2025partial year	7	23.3%

Which technologies does Burckhardt Compression AG patent most?

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 20

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 14

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 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

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Burckhardt Compression AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Burckhardt Compression AG's lead technology class is F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04B
Ranked #10,272 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Burckhardt Compression AG against Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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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