Where does Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH ranks #15,975 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 Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH hold?

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH's Innovation Score?

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH has an Innovation Score of 51.4 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH focus on?

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH's top technology area is F27B (Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus) with 9 patents, ranking #23 of 287 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH's recent grant velocity is +267% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH's patents?

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH's patents average 15.0 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 Ebner Industrieofenbau 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

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F27B (Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ebner ranks #15,975 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 12 technology areas.

#15,975
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.4/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +267%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15975 · Foreign Corporation #15,975 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,975/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dreame Innovation…
CPC-FOCUS F27B · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +267% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dreame Innovation Technology (Suzhou) 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 Ebner’s 51.4 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 10.2 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 12.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ebner Industrieofenbau · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ebner's Innovation Score is 51.4/100 (top 11% 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 Ebner?

Each dot is one of Ebner’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). Ebner’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ebner's grants concentrate

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under F27B (Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Ebner sits between Dreame Innovation Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. and Elliott Group Limited.

Ebner's three-year grant acceleration

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Dreame Innovation…

18
Dupont Specialty…

18
Eagleburgmann Jap…

18
EBM Papst Landshut

18
Ecom Instruments

18
Electrical Subsea…

18
Electrophoretics

18
Elliott Group

18
Ebner Industrieof… ◀

18

What this shows Ebner holds 18 patents at rank #15,973, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ebner

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,973 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F27B (Furnaces)

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

Ebner's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.6%
2018	2	11.1%
2021	1	5.6%
2022	1	5.6%
2023	7	38.9%
2024	2	11.1%
2025partial year	4	22.2%

Which technologies does Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH patent most?

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 9

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 9

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 7

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 6

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

B21J - FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces 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

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 1

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 1

F23D - Burners 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

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH's lead technology class is F27B (Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F27B
Ranked #15,975 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH against Dreame Innovation Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.4/100 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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