Where does Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. ranks #8,798 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 Technology and Trademark Ltd. hold?

Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 40.5 out of 100 (top 35% 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 Technology and Trademark Ltd. focus on?

Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd.'s top technology area is E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks) with 8 patents, ranking #53 of 262 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -6% 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 Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd.'s patents?

Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd.'s patents average 11.4 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 Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. 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 Technology and Trademark Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 24 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: E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Franke ranks #8,798 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 24 technology areas.

#8,798
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.5/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8798 · Foreign Corporation #8,798 · 36 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,798/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Free Stream Media
CPC-FOCUS E03C · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Free Stream Media Corp. (±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 40.5 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 12.5 pts (31%) Velocity 3.9 pts (10%) Breadth 17.3 pts (43%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Franke Technology… · this assignee

41
Hanlong Industrial · near

41
NR Engineering · near

41
Quality Electrodynam… · near

41
WMS Gaming · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Franke's Innovation Score is 40.5/100 (top 35% 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 11.4 claims/patent is at or below the 13.7 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 Technology and Trademark Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 22.2% of grants classified under E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Franke sits between Free Stream Media Corp. and GP Cellulose GmbH.

Franke's three-year grant acceleration

Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Free Stream Media

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Fuji Seiko

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Furla S p A

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Futura S P A

36
Gibson Brands

36
GKN Aerospace Swe…

36
GKN Sinter Metals

36
GP Cellulose

36
Franke Technology… ◀

36

What this shows Franke holds 36 patents at rank #8,801, 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 #8,801 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Franke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste…), Franke ranks #53 of 262 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Hanlong Industrial Co., Ltd. 41 Quality Electrodynamics, LLC 41 NR Engineering Co., Ltd. 41 WMS Gaming, Inc. 41

Franke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% 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 Technology and Trademark Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.6%
2016	3	8.3%
2017	5	13.9%
2018	4	11.1%
2019	3	8.3%
2020	7	19.4%
2021	2	5.6%
2022	2	5.6%
2023	1	2.8%
2024	4	11.1%
2025partial year	3	8.3%

Which technologies does Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. patent most?

E03C - Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks 8

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 4

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 3

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 3

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 3

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 3

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 3

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 2

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 2

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 1

Top 15 of 24 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 Technology and Trademark Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd.'s lead technology class is E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks), 22.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E03C
Ranked #8,798 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. against Free Stream Media Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.5/100 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

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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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