Where does Gurtech (PTY) Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gurtech (PTY) Ltd ranks #31,850 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 Gurtech (PTY) Ltd hold?

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Gurtech (PTY) Ltd's Innovation Score?

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gurtech (PTY) Ltd focus on?

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd's top technology area is F16N (Lubricating) with 5 patents, ranking #24 of 193 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gurtech (PTY) Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd's recent grant velocity is +33% 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 Gurtech (PTY) Ltd's patents?

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd's patents average 11.0 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 Gurtech (PTY) Ltd 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

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 6 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: F16N (Lubricating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gurtech ranks #31,850 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 6 technology areas.

#31,850
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31850 · Foreign Corporation #31,850 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,850/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gage Bilt
CPC-NARROW F16N · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gage Bilt, 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.

How Gurtech’s 42.9 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 7.6 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (47%) Breadth 8.7 pts (20%) Claim depth 6.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gurtech (PTY) · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gurtech's Innovation Score is 42.9/100 (top 30% 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 Gurtech?

Each dot is one of Gurtech’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). Gurtech’s own 11.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Gurtech's grants concentrate

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 62.5% of grants classified under F16N (Lubricating). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Gurtech sits between Guangzhou OO Medical Scientific Limited and GangaGen, Inc..

Gurtech's three-year grant acceleration

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd shows 3 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.

Guangzhou OO Medi…

8
Guangzhou Tsunami…

8
Guardian Analytics

8
Gummarus

8
Gage Bilt

8
Gallus Druckmasch…

8
Galvanize Therape…

8
Gangagen

8
Gurtech (PTY) ◀

8

What this shows Gurtech holds 8 patents at rank #31,793, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gurtech

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,793 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16N (Lubricating)

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

Gurtech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Gurtech (PTY) Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	25.0%
2017	1	12.5%
2020	1	12.5%
2022	1	12.5%
2024	2	25.0%
2025partial year	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Gurtech (PTY) Ltd patent most?

F16N - Lubricating 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gurtech (PTY) Ltd's lead technology class is F16N (Lubricating), 62.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16N
Ranked #31,850 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gurtech (PTY) Ltd against Guangzhou OO Medical Scientific Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.