Where does Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG ranks #14,020 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 Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 56.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing) with 20 patents, ranking #31 of 302 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +43% 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 Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 21.6 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 Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG 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

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 14 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: A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Grimme ranks #14,020 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 14 technology areas.

#14,020
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 21.6
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14020 · Foreign Corporation #14,020 · 21 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,020/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gopod Group
CPC-FOCUS A01D · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gopod Group Ltd. (±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 Grimme’s 56.9 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 10.7 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 13.2 pts (23%) Claim depth 12.9 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Grimme Landmaschinen… · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Grimme's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (top 6% 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 Grimme?

Each dot is one of Grimme’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). Grimme’s own 21.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Grimme's grants concentrate

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 95.2% of grants classified under A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Grimme sits between Gopod Group Ltd. and Headspin, Inc..

Grimme's three-year grant acceleration

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Gopod Group

21
Graymatter Roboti…

21
Green Creative

21
Greenlight Biosci…

21
Guangdong Yingxin…

21
Guangzhou Fourto…

21
HCT Asia

21
Headspin

21
Grimme Landmaschi… ◀

21

What this shows Grimme holds 21 patents at rank #14,022, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Grimme

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,022 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01D (Harvesting)

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

Grimme's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	23.8%
2018	1	4.8%
2019	1	4.8%
2022	4	19.0%
2023	3	14.3%
2024	3	14.3%
2025partial year	4	19.0%

Which technologies does Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 20

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 6

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

B03B - Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids OR Using Pneumatic Tables OR Jigs 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

A01F - Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce 1

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing), 95.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01D
Ranked #14,020 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG against Gopod Group Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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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