Where does Festool GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Festool GMBH ranks #3,476 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 Festool GMBH hold?

Festool GMBH holds 106 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Festool GMBH's Innovation Score?

Festool GMBH has an Innovation Score of 68.9 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Festool GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Festool GMBH's recent grant velocity is +1850% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Festool GMBH's patents?

Festool GMBH's patents average 17.8 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 Festool 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

Festool GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Festool GMBH focus on?

Festool GMBH's top technology area is B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 35 patents, ranking #11 of 229 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 106 granted patents across 39 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Festool ranks #3,476 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 106 patents across 39 technology areas.

#3,476
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.9/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: +1850%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3476 · Foreign Corporation #3,476 · 106 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 106 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,476/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Charles Schwab &
CPC-FOCUS B25F · 39 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1850% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Charles Schwab & Co., 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 Festool’s 68.9 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 16.1 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (29%) Breadth 22.1 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
10x Genomics · near

69
Festool · this assignee

69
Angel · near

69
Vestas Wind Systems… · near

69
Zhejiang Geely… · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Festool's Innovation Score is 68.9/100 (top 1% 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 Festool?

Each dot is one of Festool’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). Festool’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Festool's grants concentrate

Festool GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 33% of grants classified under B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (29 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Festool sits between Convatec Technologies Inc. and Lupin Limited.

Festool's three-year grant acceleration

Festool GMBH shows 67 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Convatec

106
Charles Schwab &

106
Colorado School o…

106
FCI USA

106
Fujifilm Material…

106
Hadasit Medical R…

106
Indian Institute…

106
Lupin

106
Festool ◀

106

What this shows Festool holds 106 patents at rank #3,476, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Festool

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,476 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Festool, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools), Festool ranks #11 of 229 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd. 69 Angel Co., Ltd. 69 Vestas Wind Systems A/S 69 10x Genomics, Inc. 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Beijing Tusen Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd. 17.8 avg Aurrion, Inc. 17.8 avg Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC 17.8 avg Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd. 17.8 avg

Festool's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Festool GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	0.9%
2019	3	2.8%
2020	3	2.8%
2021	8	7.5%
2022	20	18.9%
2023	18	17.0%
2024	29	27.4%
2025partial year	24	22.6%

Which technologies does Festool GMBH patent most?

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 35

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 24

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 21

B27G - Accessory Machines OR Apparatus FOR Working Wood OR Similar MATERIALS; Tools FOR Working Wood OR Similar Materials ; Safety Devices FOR Wood Working Machines OR Tools 20

B27B - Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor 20

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 18

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 11

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 8

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 8

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 6

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 6

B23B - TURNING; Boring 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

Top 15 of 39 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

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

Festool GMBH's lead technology class is B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 33% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25F
Ranked #3,476 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Festool GMBH against Convatec Technologies Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.9/100 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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