Where does Festo AG & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Festo AG & Co. KG ranks #4,238 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 Festo AG & Co. KG hold?

Festo AG & Co. KG holds 84 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Festo AG & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Festo AG & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Festo AG & Co. KG focus on?

Festo AG & Co. KG's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating) with 22 patents, ranking #88 of 1,836 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

Is Festo AG & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Festo AG & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -88% 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 Festo AG & Co. KG's patents?

Festo AG & Co. KG's patents average 11.5 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 Festo AG & 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

Festo AG & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 84 granted patents across 41 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: F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Festo ranks #4,238 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 84 patents across 41 technology areas.

#4,238
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: -88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4238 · Foreign Corporation #4,238 · 84 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 84 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,238/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Datalogic USA
CPC-WIDE F16K · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Datalogic USA, 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 Festo’s 44.9 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 15.3 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 22.6 pts (50%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AAC Optics (Changzhou) · near

45
DuPont Industrial… · near

45
E R Squibb & Sons L… · near

45
Epos Group A/S · near

45
Festo & KG · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Festo's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 24% 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 Festo?

Each dot is one of Festo’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). Festo’s own 11.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Festo's grants concentrate

Festo AG & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 26.2% of grants classified under F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (19 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Festo sits between Datalogic USA, Inc. and Ignite USA, LLC.

Datalogic USA

84
Delaware Capital…

84
Earlens

84
Flipboard

84
GN Netcom A/S

84
Guangdong Gopod G…

84
Galapagos

84
Ignite USA

84
Festo & KG ◀

84

What this shows Festo holds 84 patents at rank #4,239, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Festo

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,239 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Festo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16K (Valves), Festo ranks #88 of 1,836 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. 45 E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. 45 DuPont Industrial Biosciences USA, LLC 45 Epos Group A/S 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.5 here).

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association 11.5 avg Creative Technology Corporation 11.5 avg Shaanxi Lighte Optoelectronics Material Co., Ltd. 11.5 avg Safran Electronics & Defense 11.5 avg

Festo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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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Festo AG & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	6.0%
2016	16	19.0%
2017	17	20.2%
2018	19	22.6%
2019	18	21.4%
2020	7	8.3%
2021	2	2.4%

Which technologies does Festo AG & Co. KG patent most?

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 22

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 21

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 6

F16H - Gearing 5

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

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 3

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 3

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 3

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 3

Top 15 of 41 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

Festo AG & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Festo AG & Co. KG's lead technology class is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating), 26.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16K
Ranked #4,238 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Festo AG & Co. KG against Datalogic USA, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.9/100 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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