Where does Gautschi Engineering GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gautschi Engineering GmbH ranks #46,973 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 Gautschi Engineering GmbH hold?

Gautschi Engineering GmbH holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Gautschi Engineering GmbH's Innovation Score?

Gautschi Engineering GmbH has an Innovation Score of 33.6 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gautschi Engineering GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gautschi Engineering GmbH's recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gautschi Engineering GmbH's patents?

Gautschi Engineering GmbH's patents average 16.0 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 Gautschi Engineering 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

Gautschi Engineering GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Gautschi Engineering GmbH focus on?

Gautschi Engineering GmbH's top technology area is F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace) with 4 patents, ranking #81 of 350 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gautschi ranks #46,973 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 10 technology areas.

#46,973
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.6/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R46973 · Foreign Corporation #46,973 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #46,973/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Garpie
CPC-FOCUS F27D · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Garpie, Inc. (±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 Gautschi’s 33.6 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 6.2 pts (18%) Velocity 6.7 pts (20%) Breadth 11.2 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gautschi Engineering · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gautschi's Innovation Score is 33.6/100 (45th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Gautschi?

Each dot is one of Gautschi’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). Gautschi’s own 16.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Gautschi's grants concentrate

Gautschi Engineering GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Gautschi sits between Garpie, Inc. and Gelmart Industries, Inc..

Gautschi's three-year grant acceleration

Gautschi Engineering GmbH shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Garpie

5
Garrison Technolo…

5
Gateway Institute…

5
Gateway Safety

5
Ge Solartech

5
Gebhardt Foerdert…

5
Gedex Systems

5
Gelmart Industries

5
Gautschi Engineer… ◀

5

What this shows Gautschi holds 5 patents at rank #47,142, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gautschi

By rank, the assignees closest to #47,142 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces)

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

Gautschi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Gautschi Engineering GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	20.0%
2021	2	40.0%
2022	1	20.0%
2024	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Gautschi Engineering GmbH patent most?

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 4

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 4

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 3

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 1

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 1

F23D - Burners 1

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Gautschi Engineering GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gautschi Engineering GmbH's lead technology class is F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F27D
Ranked #46,973 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gautschi Engineering GmbH against Garpie, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.6/100 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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