Where does GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH ranks #4,820 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 Mechanical Equipment GmbH hold?

GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH holds 72 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH's Innovation Score?

GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH has an Innovation Score of 50.3 out of 100 (top 13% 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 Mechanical Equipment GmbH focus on?

GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH's top technology area is B04B (Centrifuges) with 45 patents, ranking #3 of 143 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

Is GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH's recent grant velocity is +16% 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 Mechanical Equipment GmbH's patents?

GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH's patents average 12.6 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 Mechanical Equipment 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 Mechanical Equipment GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 72 granted patents across 44 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: B04B (Centrifuges).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GEA ranks #4,820 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 72 patents across 44 technology areas.

#4,820
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: +16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4820 · Foreign Corporation #4,820 · 72 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 72 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,820/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Edge 3
CPC-WIDE B04B · 44 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Edge 3 Technologies (±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 50.3 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 14.8 pts (29%) Velocity 4.4 pts (9%) Breadth 23.5 pts (47%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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GEA Mechanical… · this assignee

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Hewlett-Packard… · near

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Jive Software · near

50
Kohler (China)… · near

50
Thales Avionics · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GEA's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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 12.6 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 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 Mechanical Equipment GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 62.5% of grants classified under B04B (Centrifuges). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (11 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2016. By volume, GEA sits between Edge 3 Technologies and Ion Beam Applications.

GEA's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH moved from 24 to 16 grants (0.67x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Edge 3

72
Exact Sciences

72
FU Ding Electroni…

72
GE Hybrid

72
General Cable

72
Humax

72
Inguran

72
Ion Beam Applicat…

72
GEA Mechanical Eq… ◀

72

What this shows GEA holds 72 patents at rank #4,820, 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 #4,820 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B04B (Centrifuges)

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 B04B (Centrifuges), GEA ranks #3 of 143 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V. 50 Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd. 50 Jive Software, Inc. 50 Thales Avionics, Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

Purple Innovation, LLC 12.6 avg Esab AB 12.6 avg Safran Seats 12.6 avg Zurn Industries, LLC 12.6 avg

GEA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 Mechanical Equipment GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	8.3%
2016	4	5.6%
2017	7	9.7%
2018	10	13.9%
2019	4	5.6%
2020	9	12.5%
2021	11	15.3%
2022	5	6.9%
2023	7	9.7%
2024	4	5.6%
2025partial year	5	6.9%

Which technologies does GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH patent most?

B04B - Centrifuges 45

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 9

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 5

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 4

C12H - Pasteurisation, Sterilisation, Preservation, Purification, Clarification OR Ageing OF Alcoholic BEVERAGES; Methods FOR Altering THE Alcohol Content OF Fermented Solutions OR Alcoholic Beverages 4

B01D - Separation 4

A23K - Fodder 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 3

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

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 3

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 3

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 2

C07K - Peptides 2

Top 15 of 44 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 Mechanical Equipment GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH's lead technology class is B04B (Centrifuges), 62.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B04B
Ranked #4,820 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH against Edge 3 Technologies, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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