Where does GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH ranks #28,836 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 Refrigeration Germany GMBH hold?

GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH's Innovation Score?

GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH has an Innovation Score of 20.2 out of 100 (7th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH's recent grant velocity is -40% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH's patents?

GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH's patents average 5.8 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 Refrigeration 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 Refrigeration Germany GMBH

Q: What technology areas does GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH focus on?

GEA Refrigeration Germany 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 3 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: 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, GEA ranks #28,836 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 4 technology areas.

#28,836
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 7th percentile
by Innovation Score (20.2/100): 5.8
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28836 · Foreign Corporation #28,836 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,836/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gameco
CPC-NARROW F04C · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 20.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gameco 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GEA Refrigeration… · this assignee

20
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GEA's Innovation Score is 20.2/100 (7th 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.

Where GEA's grants concentrate

GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 33.3% 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 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, GEA sits between Gameco LLC and Geomagical Labs, Inc..

GEA's three-year grant acceleration

GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

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9

What this shows GEA holds 9 patents at rank #28,815, 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 #28,815 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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)

20 7th percentile higher than 7% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

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

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GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	33.3%
2019	2	22.2%
2020	2	22.2%
2024	1	11.1%
2025partial year	1	11.1%

Which technologies does GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 3

B01D - Separation 1

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

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#28,836

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

20.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GEA Refrigeration Germany 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), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #28,836 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GEA Refrigeration Germany GMBH against Gameco LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 20.2/100 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

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