Where does Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH ranks #12,452 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 Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH hold?

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH's Innovation Score?

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH has an Innovation Score of 42.8 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH's recent grant velocity is +280% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH's patents?

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH's patents average 13.3 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 Gardner Denver Deutschland, 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

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH focus on?

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH's top technology area is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps) with 11 patents, ranking #60 of 587 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gardner ranks #12,452 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 17 technology areas.

#12,452
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.8/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: +280%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12452 · Foreign Corporation #12,452 · 24 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
UPPER-Q #12,452/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Glenmark Specialty
CPC-FOCUS F04C · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +280% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Glenmark Specialty S.A. (±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 Gardner’s 42.8 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 11.1 pts (26%) Velocity 9.2 pts (21%) Breadth 14.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gardner Denver… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Gardner's Innovation Score is 42.8/100 (top 30% 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 Gardner?

Each dot is one of Gardner’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). Gardner’s own 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Gardner's grants concentrate

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 45.8% of grants classified under F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Gardner sits between Glenmark Specialty S.A. and GridPoint, Inc..

Gardner's three-year grant acceleration

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Glenmark Specialty

24
Global Healthcare…

24
Gottlieb Binder &…

24
Griffith Universi…

24
Global Allies

24
Graphtec

24
Greatcall

24
Gridpoint

24
Gardner Denver De… ◀

24

What this shows Gardner holds 24 patents at rank #12,458, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gardner

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,458 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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

Gardner's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.3%
2016	1	4.2%
2017	1	4.2%
2018	1	4.2%
2020	6	25.0%
2021	2	8.3%
2022	3	12.5%
2023	2	8.3%
2024	6	25.0%

Which technologies does Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 11

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 10

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 7

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 3

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 2

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 2

C05F - Organic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05c, e.g. Fertilisers From Waste OR Refuse 1

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

F16N - Lubricating 1

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 1

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH's lead technology class is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps), 45.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #12,452 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gardner Denver Deutschland, GmbH against Glenmark Specialty S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.8/100 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.

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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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