Where does GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. ranks #6,776 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 GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. hold?

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V.'s Innovation Score?

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. has an Innovation Score of 53.3 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. focus on?

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V.'s top technology area is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish) with 37 patents, ranking #5 of 119 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +35% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V.'s patents?

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V.'s patents average 16.1 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 GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. 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

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 39 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: A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GEA ranks #6,776 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 39 technology areas.

#6,776
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.3/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6776 · Foreign Corporation #6,776 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,776/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fairfield Industries…
CPC-FOCUS A22C · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fairfield Industries Incorporated (±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 GEA’s 53.3 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 13.5 pts (25%) Velocity 8.0 pts (15%) Breadth 22.1 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arakawa Chemical… · near

53
Fluor · near

53
GEA Food Solutions… · this assignee

53
Kleemann · near

53
International Machines · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GEA's Innovation Score is 53.3/100 (top 9% 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 GEA?

Each dot is one of GEA’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). GEA’s own 16.1 claims/patent is at or below the 17.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where GEA's grants concentrate

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 75.5% of grants classified under A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, GEA sits between Fairfield Industries Incorporated and General Atomics.

GEA's three-year grant acceleration

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Fairfield Industr…

49
Friedrich-schille…

49
Future Dial

49
GE Healthcare UK

49
Grenzebach Maschi…

49
Gatekeeper Systems

49
Gemological Insti…

49
General Atomics

49
GEA Food Solution… ◀

49

What this shows GEA holds 49 patents at rank #6,775, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GEA

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,775 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A22C (Processing Meat)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GEA, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A22C (Processing Meat), GEA ranks #5 of 119 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Fluor Technologies Corporation 53 Kleemann GmbH 53 Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. 53 International Electronic Machines Corp. 53

GEA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	6.1%
2016	3	6.1%
2017	5	10.2%
2018	3	6.1%
2019	6	12.2%
2020	6	12.2%
2021	3	6.1%
2022	7	14.3%
2023	1	2.0%
2024	10	20.4%
2025partial year	2	4.1%

Which technologies does GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. patent most?

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 37

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 25

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 11

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 10

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 10

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 10

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 7

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 6

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 4

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 4

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 3

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 3

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 3

B30B - Presses IN General 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

Top 15 of 39 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

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V.'s lead technology class is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish), 75.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A22C
Ranked #6,776 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. against Fairfield Industries Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.3/100 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

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