Where does Fuchs Petrolub SE rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fuchs Petrolub SE ranks #21,156 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 Fuchs Petrolub SE hold?

Fuchs Petrolub SE holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Fuchs Petrolub SE's Innovation Score?

Fuchs Petrolub SE has an Innovation Score of 39.7 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fuchs Petrolub SE's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fuchs Petrolub SE's recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fuchs Petrolub SE's patents?

Fuchs Petrolub SE's patents average 21.7 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 Fuchs Petrolub SE 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

Fuchs Petrolub SE

Q: What technology areas does Fuchs Petrolub SE focus on?

Fuchs Petrolub SE's top technology area is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition) with 9 patents, ranking #47 of 300 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fuchs ranks #21,156 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 12 technology areas.

#21,156
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.7/100): 21.7
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21156 · Foreign Corporation #21,156 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,156/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fred Bergman…
CPC-FOCUS C10M · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fred Bergman Healthcare Pty 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 Fuchs’s 39.7 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 9.1 pts (23%) Velocity 5.3 pts (13%) Breadth 12.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 13.0 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fuchs Petrolub SE · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fuchs's Innovation Score is 39.7/100 (top 37% 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 Fuchs?

Each dot is one of Fuchs’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). Fuchs’s own 21.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fuchs's grants concentrate

Fuchs Petrolub SE is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Fuchs sits between Fred Bergman Healthcare Pty Ltd and Galectin Therapeutics, Inc..

Fuchs's three-year grant acceleration

Fuchs Petrolub SE shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Fred Bergman Heal…

13
Frederick Goldman

13
Fresh Health

13
Friedrich Boysen…

13
Fulcrum Bioenergy

13
Furukawa Rock Dri…

13
G W Lisk

13
Galectin Therapeu…

13
Fuchs Petrolub SE ◀

13

What this shows Fuchs holds 13 patents at rank #21,160, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fuchs

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,160 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10M (Lubricating Compositions)

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

Fuchs's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fuchs Petrolub SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	15.4%
2018	1	7.7%
2020	3	23.1%
2021	2	15.4%
2022	3	23.1%
2023	1	7.7%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Fuchs Petrolub SE patent most?

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 9

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 1

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

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

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Fuchs Petrolub SE's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fuchs Petrolub SE's lead technology class is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10M
Ranked #21,156 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fuchs Petrolub SE against Fred Bergman Healthcare Pty Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.7/100 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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