Where does Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG ranks #12,478 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 Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 43.8 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +44% 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 Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 11.8 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 Hubtex Maschinenbau 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

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load) with 20 patents, ranking #20 of 447 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 12 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: B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hubtex ranks #12,478 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 12 technology areas.

#12,478
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.8/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: +44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12478 · Foreign Corporation #12,478 · 24 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
UPPER-Q #12,478/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hart InterCivic
CPC-FOCUS B66F · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hart InterCivic, 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 Hubtex’s 43.8 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 11.1 pts (25%) Velocity 13.3 pts (30%) Breadth 12.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hubtex Maschinenbau… · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hubtex's Innovation Score is 43.8/100 (top 27% 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 Hubtex?

Each dot is one of Hubtex’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). Hubtex’s own 11.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hubtex's grants concentrate

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Hubtex sits between Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. and IB Appliances US Holdings, LLC.

Hubtex's three-year grant acceleration

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Honda

24
Hortival Diffusio…

24
Hoya Optical Labs…

24
Hsien Chang Optic…

24
Hart Intercivic

24
Huntington Ingall…

24
Hyland Switzerlan…

24
IB Appliances US…

24
Hubtex Maschinenb… ◀

24

What this shows Hubtex holds 24 patents at rank #12,478, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hubtex

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,478 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B66F (Hoisting)

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

Hubtex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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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Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.3%
2016	2	8.3%
2017	2	8.3%
2018	1	4.2%
2019	2	8.3%
2020	1	4.2%
2021	2	8.3%
2022	3	12.5%
2023	2	8.3%
2024	5	20.8%
2025partial year	2	8.3%

Which technologies does Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 20

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 14

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 4

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 3

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 3

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 1

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 1

F16H - Gearing 1

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B66F
Ranked #12,478 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG against Honda Electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.8/100 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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