Where does DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH ranks #15,231 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 DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH hold?

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH's Innovation Score?

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH has an Innovation Score of 41.6 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH's recent grant velocity is +71% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH's patents?

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH's patents average 17.7 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 DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK 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

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH

Q: What technology areas does DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH focus on?

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH's top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 19 patents, ranking #98 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dürkopp ranks #15,231 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 8 technology areas.

#15,231
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.6/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15231 · Foreign Corporation #15,231 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,231/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Descartes Labs
CPC-NARROW B65G · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Descartes Labs, 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 Dürkopp’s 41.6 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 10.3 pts (25%) Velocity 10.7 pts (26%) Breadth 10.0 pts (24%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dürkopp's Innovation Score is 41.6/100 (top 33% 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 Dürkopp?

Each dot is one of Dürkopp’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). Dürkopp’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dürkopp's grants concentrate

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Dürkopp sits between Descartes Labs, Inc. and Ebullient, Inc..

Dürkopp's three-year grant acceleration

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Descartes Labs

19
Differential Dyna…

19
Drayson (Europe)

19
Duke

19
EA Pharma

19
Earlysense

19
Ebbe America LC

19
Ebullient

19
DÜRkopp FÖRdertec… ◀

19

What this shows DÜRKOPP holds 19 patents at rank #15,231, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DÜRKOPP

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,231 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Dürkopp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.3%
2016	3	15.8%
2017	1	5.3%
2018	1	5.3%
2019	1	5.3%
2020	1	5.3%
2021	3	15.8%
2022	4	21.1%
2023	1	5.3%
2024	3	15.8%

Which technologies does DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 19

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 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

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 8 of 8 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

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH's lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #15,231 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH against Descartes Labs, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.6/100 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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