Where does BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG ranks #19,548 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 BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG hold?

BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 39.2 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%).

What technology areas does BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating) with 8 patents, ranking #266 of 1,836 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 12.7 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 BÜRKERT 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

BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Bürkert ranks #19,548 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 12 technology areas.

#19,548
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.2/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19548 · Foreign Corporation #19,548 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,548/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Buddy Box
CPC-FOCUS F16K · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Buddy Box, 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 Bürkert’s 39.2 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 9.4 pts (24%) Velocity 10.0 pts (26%) Breadth 12.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BÜRKERT Werke & KG · this assignee

39
Epitopix · near

39
Scanit · near

39
Rawlings Sporting… · near

39
Triune Systems · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bürkert's Innovation Score is 39.2/100 (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 Bürkert?

Each dot is one of Bürkert’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). Bürkert’s own 12.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bürkert's grants concentrate

BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Bürkert sits between Buddy Box, LLC and C6 Technologies AS.

Bürkert's three-year grant acceleration

BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Buddy Box

14
Build IP

14
Bullhead Innovati…

14
Busy Baby

14
C Series Aircraft…

14
C&A Marketing

14
C-eng

14
C6 AS

14
BÜRkert Werke & KG ◀

14

What this shows BÜRKERT holds 14 patents at rank #19,548, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BÜRKERT

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,548 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for BÜRKERT, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16K (Valves), BÜRKERT ranks #266 of 1,836 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Scanit Technologies, Inc. 39 Epitopix, LLC 39 Triune Systems, LLC 39 Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc. 39

Bürkert'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 · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	14.3%
2019	1	7.1%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	2	14.3%
2022	4	28.6%
2023	1	7.1%
2024	1	7.1%
2025partial year	2	14.3%

Which technologies does BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 8

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

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 1

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

Top 12 of 12 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

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

BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16K
Ranked #19,548 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BÜRKERT Werke GMBH & Co. KG against Buddy Box, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.2/100 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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