Where does Grundfos Holding A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Grundfos Holding A/S ranks #1,875 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 Grundfos Holding A/S hold?

Grundfos Holding A/S holds 214 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is Grundfos Holding A/S's Innovation Score?

Grundfos Holding A/S has an Innovation Score of 58.8 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Grundfos Holding A/S focus on?

Grundfos Holding A/S's top technology area is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps) with 136 patents, ranking #13 of 1,034 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

Is Grundfos Holding A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Grundfos Holding A/S's recent grant velocity is +57% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Grundfos Holding A/S's patents?

Grundfos Holding A/S's patents average 17.7 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 Grundfos Holding A/S 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

Grundfos Holding A/S

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 214 granted patents across 80 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: F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Grundfos ranks #1,875 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 214 patents across 80 technology areas.

#1,875
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.8/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1875 · Foreign Corporation #1,875 · 214 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 214 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,875/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AWI Licensing
CPC-WIDE F04D · 80 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AWI Licensing 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 Grundfos’s 58.8 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 18.6 pts (32%) Velocity 4.6 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Board of Trustees… · near

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Grundfos Holding A/S · this assignee

59
Paige AI · near

59
Vermeer Manufacturing · near

59
CPS Technology… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Grundfos's Innovation Score is 58.8/100 (top 4% 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 Grundfos?

Each dot is one of Grundfos’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). Grundfos’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Grundfos's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Grundfos Holding A/S received 121 grants versus 77 in 2015–2019 (+57% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 35 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 2. Lead class F04D accounts for 63.6% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: AWI Licensing LLC (#1,871) and NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. (#1,879).

Grundfos's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Grundfos Holding A/S moved from 92 to 64 grants (0.70x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,163. See the growth leaderboard.

AWI Licensing

214
Darfon

214
F5 Networks

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Glaxosmithkline I…

214
Johnson Electric…

214
MKS Instruments

214
Minebea

214
NEC Display Solut…

214
Grundfos Holding… ◀

214

What this shows Grundfos holds 214 patents at rank #1,875, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Grundfos

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,875 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Grundfos, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), Grundfos ranks #13 of 1,034 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Vermeer Manufacturing Company 59 Paige.AI, Inc. 59 Board of Trustees of the Univeristy of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville 59 CPS Technology Holdings LLC 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

SmartDrive Systems, Inc. 17.7 avg Nissan North America, Inc. 17.7 avg Zimmer Spine, Inc. 17.7 avg Lund Motion Products, Inc. 17.7 avg

Grundfos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Grundfos Holding A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	0.9%
2016	8	3.7%
2017	9	4.2%
2018	23	10.7%
2019	35	16.4%
2020	33	15.4%
2021	24	11.2%
2022	19	8.9%
2023	16	7.5%
2024	29	13.6%
2025partial year	16	7.5%

Which technologies does Grundfos Holding A/S patent most?

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 136

F24D - Domestic- OR Space-heating Systems, e.g. Central Heating SYSTEMS; Domestic Hot-water Supply SYSTEMS; Elements OR Components Therefor 40

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 32

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 30

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 25

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 22

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 18

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 17

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 11

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 10

E03B - Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water 9

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 8

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 6

Top 15 of 80 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

Grundfos Holding A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Grundfos Holding A/S's lead technology class is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04D
Ranked #1,875 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Grundfos Holding A/S against AWI Licensing LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.8/100 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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