Where does Guehring KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Guehring KG ranks #8,399 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 Guehring KG hold?

Guehring KG holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Guehring KG's Innovation Score?

Guehring KG has an Innovation Score of 47.3 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Guehring KG focus on?

Guehring KG's top technology area is B23B (TURNING; Boring) with 28 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Guehring KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Guehring KG's recent grant velocity is +417% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Guehring KG's patents?

Guehring KG's patents average 21.5 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 Guehring 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

Guehring KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 19 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: B23B (TURNING; Boring).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Guehring ranks #8,399 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 19 technology areas.

#8,399
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.3/100): 21.5
avg claims per patent: +417%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8399 · Foreign Corporation #8,399 · 38 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,399/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH General Dynamics…
CPC-FOCUS B23B · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +417% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. (±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
Advanced Digital… · near

47
Guehring KG · this assignee

47
HongQiSheng… · near

47
Dominion Energy · near

47
Invidi · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Guehring's Innovation Score is 47.3/100 (top 19% 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 Guehring's grants concentrate

Guehring KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 73.7% of grants classified under B23B (TURNING; Boring). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Guehring sits between Guerbet and Husco Automotive Holdings LLC.

Guehring's three-year grant acceleration

Guehring KG shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Guerbet

38
General Dynamics…

38
Godinger Silver A…

38
Goodman Manufactu…

38
Hannstouch Soluti…

38
Hatco

38
Heckler & Koch

38
Husco Automotive…

38
Guehring KG ◀

38

What this shows Guehring holds 38 patents at rank #8,400, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Guehring

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,400 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23B (Turning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Guehring, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. 47 HongQiSheng Precision Electronics (QinHuangDao) Co., Ltd. 47 Invidi Technologies Corporation 47 Dominion Energy, Inc. 47

Guehring's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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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Guehring KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.6%
2017	2	5.3%
2018	1	2.6%
2019	2	5.3%
2020	7	18.4%
2021	8	21.1%
2022	8	21.1%
2023	6	15.8%
2024	2	5.3%
2025partial year	1	2.6%

Which technologies does Guehring KG patent most?

B23B - TURNING; Boring 28

B23C - Milling 17

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 7

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 5

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 4

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

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 2

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

B23H - Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,399

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.3 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

Guehring KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Guehring KG's lead technology class is B23B (TURNING; Boring), 73.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23B
Ranked #8,399 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Guehring KG against Guerbet, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.3/100 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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