Where does Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) ranks #6,894 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 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) hold?

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)'s Innovation Score?

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) has an Innovation Score of 42.0 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) focus on?

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)'s top technology area is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking) with 28 patents, ranking #36 of 1,343 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)'s recent grant velocity is +18% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)'s patents?

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)'s patents average 13.4 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 Focke & Co. (GmbH & 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

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Focke ranks #6,894 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 17 technology areas.

#6,894
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (42.0/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: +18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6894 · Foreign Corporation #6,894 · 48 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,894/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ecopro BM
CPC-FOCUS B65B · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ecopro BM Co., Ltd. (±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 Focke’s 42.0 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 13.4 pts (32%) Velocity 5.9 pts (14%) Breadth 14.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bluebeam · near

42
Ezconn · near

42
Focke & ( & KG) · this assignee

42
Netlist · near

42
J A Woollam · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Focke's Innovation Score is 42.0/100 (top 32% 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 Focke?

Each dot is one of Focke’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). Focke’s own 13.4 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Focke's grants concentrate

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 58.3% of grants classified under B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (8 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Focke sits between Ecopro BM Co., Ltd. and Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC.

Focke's three-year grant acceleration

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Ecopro BM

48
Element SIX Abras…

48
Enzo Biochem

48
Federal Law Enfor…

48
G&H Diversified M…

48
Genfit

48
Ghsp

48
Gracenote Digital…

48
Focke & ( & KG) ◀

48

What this shows Focke holds 48 patents at rank #6,893, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Focke

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,893 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65B (Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Focke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65B (Machines), Focke ranks #36 of 1,343 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Ezconn Corporation 42 Netlist, Inc. 42 Bluebeam, Inc. 42 J.A. Woollam Co., Inc. 42

Focke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	8.3%
2016	3	6.3%
2017	4	8.3%
2018	5	10.4%
2019	6	12.5%
2020	7	14.6%
2021	4	8.3%
2022	3	6.3%
2023	4	8.3%
2024	8	16.7%

Which technologies does Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) patent most?

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 28

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 23

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 10

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 6

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 6

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 4

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 4

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 3

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 1

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

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)'s lead technology class is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking), 58.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65B
Ranked #6,894 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) against Ecopro BM Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.0/100 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.

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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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