Where does Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh ranks #24,348 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh hold?

Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh's Innovation Score?

Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh has an Innovation Score of 27.4 out of 100 (top 76% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh's patents?

Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh's patents average 10.8 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 Fluehs Drehtechnik 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

Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh

Q: What technology areas does Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh focus on?

Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Fluehs ranks #24,348 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 5 technology areas.

#24,348
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 76%
by Innovation Score (27.4/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24348 · Foreign Corporation #24,348 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,348/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Floreac div MICROFLOR
CPC-NARROW F16K · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Floreac N.v. Div. Microflor (±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
Fluehs Drehtechnik · this assignee

27
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Fluehs's Innovation Score is 27.4/100 (top 76% 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 Fluehs's grants concentrate

Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Fluehs sits between Flospine, Llc and Fontaine Commercial Trailer, Inc..

Fluehs's three-year grant acceleration

Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Flospine

11
Floreac div Micro…

11
Florence

11
Flow Neuroscience

11
Fluke Precision M…

11
Follett

11
Fonality

11
Fontaine Commerci…

11
Fluehs Drehtechnik ◀

11

What this shows Fluehs holds 11 patents at rank #24,356, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fluehs

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,356 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

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

Fluehs's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 Top 76% higher than 24% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	27.3%
2018	3	27.3%
2020	3	27.3%
2022	1	9.1%
2023	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Fluehs Drehtechnik Gmbh patent most?

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 11

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 3

E03C - DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER ; SINKS 2

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 1

B01F - MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,348

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.