Where does Franka Emika GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Franka Emika GmbH ranks #10,030 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 Franka Emika GmbH hold?

Franka Emika GmbH holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Franka Emika GmbH's Innovation Score?

Franka Emika GmbH has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Franka Emika GmbH focus on?

Franka Emika GmbH's top technology area is B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices) with 26 patents, ranking #70 of 1,442 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Franka Emika GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Franka Emika GmbH's recent grant velocity is +2100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Franka Emika GmbH's patents?

Franka Emika GmbH's patents average 16.1 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 Franka Emika 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

Franka Emika GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Franka ranks #10,030 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 10 technology areas.

#10,030
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +2100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10030 · Foreign Corporation #10,030 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,030/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Exacta-Frac Energy…
CPC-FOCUS B25J · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +2100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Exacta-Frac Energy Services, 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 Franka’s 41.5 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 12.0 pts (29%) Velocity 8.7 pts (21%) Breadth 11.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DigiCert · near

41
Franka Emika · this assignee

41
Oklahoma Medical… · near

41
Printed Energy Pty · near

41
Smiths Detection · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Franka's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Franka?

Each dot is one of Franka’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). Franka’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Franka's grants concentrate

Franka Emika GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 83.9% of grants classified under B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Franka sits between Exacta-Frac Energy Services, Inc. and Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC.

Franka's three-year grant acceleration

Franka Emika GmbH shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Exacta-frac Energ…

31
Excelliance MOS

31
FN Herstal

31
Fondazione Teleth…

31
Furukawa Magnet W…

31
Fedex Supply Chai…

31
Five AI

31
Fresenius Kabi USA

31
Franka Emika ◀

31

What this shows Franka holds 31 patents at rank #10,028, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Franka

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,028 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25J (Manipulators)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Franka, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25J (Manipulators), Franka ranks #70 of 1,442 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Smiths Detection Inc. 41 Printed Energy Pty Ltd 41 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation 41 DigiCert, Inc. 41

Franka's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Franka Emika GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	3.2%
2020	5	16.1%
2021	4	12.9%
2022	9	29.0%
2023	1	3.2%
2024	3	9.7%
2025partial year	8	25.8%

Which technologies does Franka Emika GmbH patent most?

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 26

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 20

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 1

G01G - Weighing 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Franka Emika GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Franka Emika GmbH's lead technology class is B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices), 83.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25J
Ranked #10,030 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Franka Emika GmbH against Exacta-Frac Energy Services, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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