Where does Engel Austria GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Engel Austria GMBH ranks #4,875 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 Engel Austria GMBH hold?

Engel Austria GMBH holds 71 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Engel Austria GMBH's Innovation Score?

Engel Austria GMBH has an Innovation Score of 53.1 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Engel Austria GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Engel Austria GMBH's recent grant velocity is +119% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Engel Austria GMBH's patents?

Engel Austria GMBH's patents average 17.6 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 Engel Austria 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

Engel Austria GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Engel Austria GMBH focus on?

Engel Austria GMBH's top technology area is B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing) with 63 patents. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 71 granted patents across 30 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: B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Engel ranks #4,875 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 71 patents across 30 technology areas.

#4,875
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.1/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: +119%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4875 · Foreign Corporation #4,875 · 71 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 71 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,875/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cambridge Mobile…
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +119% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cambridge Mobile Telematics 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Engel Austria · this assignee

53
Inveniam Capital… · near

53
OMG · near

53
InContact · near

53
Mbda UK · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Engel's Innovation Score is 53.1/100 (top 9% 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.

Where Engel's grants concentrate

Engel Austria GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 88.7% of grants classified under B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Engel sits between Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. and Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH.

Engel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Engel Austria GMBH moved from 23 to 29 grants (1.26x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Cambridge Mobile…

71
Clarius Mobile He…

71
Composecure

71
Domo

71
Euroimmun Medizin…

71
FSP Technology

71
Freedom Scientific

71
Fujitsu Technolog…

71
Engel Austria ◀

71

What this shows Engel holds 71 patents at rank #4,875, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Engel

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,875 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Engel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Inveniam Capital Partners, Inc. 53 OMG, Inc. 53 InContact Inc. 53 Mbda UK Limited 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Tower Partners Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 17.6 avg Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. 17.6 avg Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. 17.6 avg Cilag GmbH International 17.6 avg

Engel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Engel Austria GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.8%
2016	5	7.0%
2017	3	4.2%
2018	5	7.0%
2019	6	8.5%
2020	5	7.0%
2021	12	16.9%
2022	9	12.7%
2023	7	9.9%
2024	13	18.3%
2025partial year	4	5.6%

Which technologies does Engel Austria GMBH patent most?

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 63

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 13

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 6

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

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

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

Top 15 of 30 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,875

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Engel Austria GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Engel Austria GMBH's lead technology class is B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing), 88.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #4,875 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Engel Austria GMBH against Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.1/100 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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