Where does GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH ranks #16,817 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 Germany GmbH hold?

GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH's Innovation Score?

GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH has an Innovation Score of 46.2 out of 100 (top 21% 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 Germany GmbH focus on?

GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH's top technology area is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking) with 9 patents, ranking #146 of 1,343 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH's recent grant velocity is +29% 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 Germany GmbH's patents?

GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH's patents average 15.3 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 GEA Food Solutions Germany 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

GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GEA ranks #16,817 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 15 technology areas.

#16,817
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.2/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16817 · Foreign Corporation #16,817 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,817/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fractal Heatsink
CPC-FOCUS B65B · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fractal Heatsink Technologies 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.

How GEA’s 46.2 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 10.0 pts (22%) Velocity 13.3 pts (29%) Breadth 13.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GEA Food Solutions… · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GEA's Innovation Score is 46.2/100 (top 21% 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 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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 Germany GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 52.9% of grants classified under B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, GEA sits between Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC and Green Bell Co., Ltd..

GEA's three-year grant acceleration

GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Fractal Heatsink

17
Framo Engineering…

17
Fujifilm Imaging…

17
Fujiwa Denki

17
Genexine

17
Good WAY Technolo…

17
Gottfried Wilhelm…

17
Green Bell

17
GEA Food Solution… ◀

17

What this shows GEA holds 17 patents at rank #16,816, 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 #16,816 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65B (Machines)

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

GEA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.9%
2017	4	23.5%
2018	2	11.8%
2020	1	5.9%
2021	2	11.8%
2023	3	17.6%
2024	3	17.6%
2025partial year	1	5.9%

Which technologies does GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH patent most?

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 9

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

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 4

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 1

G01G - Weighing 1

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 1

Top 15 of 15 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 Germany GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH's lead technology class is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking), 52.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65B
Ranked #16,817 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH against Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.2/100 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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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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