Where does Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH ranks #2,588 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 Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH hold?

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH holds 150 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH's Innovation Score?

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH has an Innovation Score of 50.3 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH's recent grant velocity is -77% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH's patents?

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH's patents average 18.2 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 Eberspächer Exhaust Technology 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

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH focus on?

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH's top technology area is F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines) with 136 patents, ranking #11 of 487 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 150 granted patents across 39 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Eberspächer ranks #2,588 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 150 patents across 39 technology areas.

#2,588
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: -77%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2588 · Foreign Corporation #2,588 · 150 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 150 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,588/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asmo
CPC-FOCUS F01N · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -77% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asmo Co., Ltd. (±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 Eberspächer’s 50.3 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 17.3 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 22.1 pts (44%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Eberspächer Exhaust… · this assignee

50
Kobayashi Pharmaceut… · near

50
Mapper Lithography… · near

50
NKT Photonics A/S · near

50
Single Buoy Moorings · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Eberspächer's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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 Eberspächer?

Each dot is one of Eberspächer’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). Eberspächer’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Eberspächer's grants concentrate

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 90.7% of grants classified under F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (31 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2021. By volume, Eberspächer sits between Asmo Co., Ltd. and Kyoraku Co., Ltd..

Asmo

150
Auckland Uniservi…

150
Canon Production…

150
Crowdstrike

150
Epizyme

150
Goodrich Lighting…

150
Harmonic Drive Sy…

150
Kyoraku

150
Eberspächer Exhau… ◀

150

What this shows Eberspächer holds 150 patents at rank #2,588, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Eberspächer

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,588 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR E…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Eberspächer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR E…), Eberspächer ranks #11 of 487 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 50 NKT Photonics A/S 50 Mapper Lithography IP B.V. 50 Single Buoy Moorings Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

D-wave Systems Inc. 18.2 avg Keysight Technologies, Inc. 18.2 avg Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. 18.2 avg Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company 18.2 avg

Eberspächer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	18.0%
2016	25	16.7%
2017	31	20.7%
2018	14	9.3%
2019	25	16.7%
2020	18	12.0%
2021	10	6.7%

Which technologies does Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH patent most?

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 136

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 61

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 25

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 22

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 19

B01D - Separation 15

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 14

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 14

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 11

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 11

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

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

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 8

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 8

Top 15 of 39 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH's lead technology class is F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines), 90.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F01N
Ranked #2,588 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH against Asmo Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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

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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

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