Where does Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG ranks #15,291 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 Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG hold?

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG's Innovation Score?

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG has an Innovation Score of 35.1 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG focus on?

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 16 patents, ranking #64 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG's recent grant velocity is +25% 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 Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG's patents?

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG's patents average 10.5 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 Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG 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

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Franke ranks #15,291 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 13 technology areas.

#15,291
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.1/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15291 · Foreign Corporation #15,291 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,291/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Foot Innovations
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Foot Innovations, LLC (±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 Franke’s 35.1 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 10.3 pts (29%) Velocity 5.7 pts (16%) Breadth 12.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Franke Kaffeemaschinen · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Franke's Innovation Score is 35.1/100 (top 50% 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 Franke?

Each dot is one of Franke’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). Franke’s own 10.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Franke's grants concentrate

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 84.2% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Franke sits between Foot Innovations, LLC and Fuhu Holdings, Inc..

Franke's three-year grant acceleration

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Foot Innovations

19
Fort Robotics

19
Foshan Shunde Yaj…

19
Fox Head

19
Free Form Fibers

19
Freedom Photonics

19
Freeport-mcmoran

19
Fuhu Holdings

19
Franke Kaffeemasc… ◀

19

What this shows Franke holds 19 patents at rank #15,296, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Franke

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,296 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Franke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	10.5%
2017	2	10.5%
2018	1	5.3%
2019	3	15.8%
2020	2	10.5%
2021	2	10.5%
2022	2	10.5%
2023	2	10.5%
2024	2	10.5%
2025partial year	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 16

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 4

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 3

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

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 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 1

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

A24C - Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 84.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #15,291 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG against Foot Innovations, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.1/100 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

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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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