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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Festo SE & Co. KG ranks #3,079 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 SE & Co. KG hold?

Festo SE & Co. KG holds 123 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

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

Festo SE & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 63.2 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Festo SE & Co. KG.

What does claim depth mean for Festo SE & Co. KG's patents?

Festo SE & Co. KG's patents average 14.6 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 Festo SE & 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 SE & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Festo SE & Co. KG focus on?

Festo SE & Co. KG's top technology area is F15B (Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 55 patents, ranking #15 of 701 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 123 granted patents across 50 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: F15B (Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Festo ranks #3,079 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 123 patents across 50 technology areas.

#3,079
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.2/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3079 · Foreign Corporation #3,079 · 123 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 123 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,079/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH EndoChoice
CPC-WIDE F15B · 50 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: EndoChoice, 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 63.2 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 16.7 pts (26%) Velocity 12.8 pts (20%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ingersoll-Rand… · near

63
Parker-Hannifin · near

63
Renesas · near

63
Dish Network India… · near

63
Festo SE & KG · this assignee

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Festo's Innovation Score is 63.2/100 (top 2% 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 14.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Festo's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2020–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 25 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 14. Lead class F15B accounts for 44.7% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG (#3,076) and MPI Corporation (#3,084).

Festo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Festo SE & Co. KG moved from 36 to 69 grants (1.92x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #235. See the growth leaderboard.

Endress+Hauser +KG

123
Endochoice

123
Everi Games

123
Futaba Industrial

123
Headwater Research

123
Knorr-bremse Syst…

123
Lifetime Products

123
MPI

123
Festo SE & KG ◀

123

What this shows Festo holds 123 patents at rank #3,080, 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 #3,080 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F15B (Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN General)

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 F15B (Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN General), Festo ranks #15 of 701 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Dish Network Technologies India Private Limited 63 Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc. 63 Parker-Hannifin Corporation 63 Renesas Electronics Corporation 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.6 here).

Pilz GmbH & Co. KG 14.6 avg Pyrotek, Inc. 14.6 avg Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche 14.6 avg Popsockets LLC 14.6 avg

Festo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Festo SE & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	22	17.9%
2021	14	11.4%
2022	25	20.3%
2023	23	18.7%
2024	21	17.1%
2025partial year	18	14.6%

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

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 55

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 32

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 28

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 19

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

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

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 4

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

F16H - Gearing 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

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

Top 15 of 50 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 SE & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Festo SE & Co. KG's lead technology class is F15B (Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 44.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F15B
Ranked #3,079 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Festo SE & Co. KG against ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.2/100 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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