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Franz Kaldewei GMBH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Franz ranks #28,796 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 4 technology areas.

#28,796
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
4th percentile
by Innovation Score (16.2/100)
2.0
avg claims per patent
-50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28796 · Foreign Corporation #28,796 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
  • MID-PACK #28,796/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Forma TM
  • CPC-NARROW B01F · 4 areas
  • INNOV-LOW 16.2/100
  • CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.0 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -50% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Forma TM, 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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Franz

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Franz's Innovation Score is 16.2/100 (4th percentile 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Where Franz's grants concentrate

Franz Kaldewei GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 11.1% of grants classified under B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing). By volume, Franz sits between Forma TM, LLC and Freixenet, S.A..

Who files at Franz's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Franz holds 9 patents at rank #28,746, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Franz

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,746 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01F (Mixing)

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

Franz's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

16 4th percentile higher than 4% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

3 201520192020 3
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Franz Kaldewei GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 3 33.3%
2019 3 33.3%
2020 3 33.3%

Which technologies does Franz Kaldewei GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#28,796

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

16.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Franz Kaldewei GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Franz Kaldewei GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is B01F (Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing), 11.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01F
  • Ranked #28,796 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Franz Kaldewei GMBH & Co. KG against Forma TM, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 16.2/100 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

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.