Where does Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH ranks #14,670 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 Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH hold?

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH's Innovation Score?

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH has an Innovation Score of 39.0 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH's recent grant velocity is -33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH's patents?

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH's patents average 16.6 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 Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH 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

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH focus on?

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH's top technology area is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps) with 9 patents, ranking #68 of 587 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hugo ranks #14,670 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 22 technology areas.

#14,670
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.0/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14670 · Foreign Corporation #14,670 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,670/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Habana Labs
CPC-FOCUS F04C · 22 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Habana Labs 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 Hugo’s 39.0 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 10.5 pts (27%) Velocity 1.9 pts (5%) Breadth 16.6 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hugo Vogelsang… · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hugo's Innovation Score is 39.0/100 (top 39% 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 Hugo?

Each dot is one of Hugo’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). Hugo’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hugo's grants concentrate

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 45% of grants classified under F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Hugo sits between Hitachi-lg Data Storage Korea, Inc. and Habana Labs Ltd..

Hugo's three-year grant acceleration

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Hitachi-lg Data S…

20
Hithink Royalflus…

20
HME Incorporated

20
Honshu Chemical I…

20
Human Horizons (J…

20
Huntsman Advanced…

20
Husco Internation…

20
Habana Labs

20
Hugo Vogelsang Ma… ◀

20

What this shows Hugo holds 20 patents at rank #14,661, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hugo

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,661 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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

Hugo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	20.0%
2016	1	5.0%
2017	6	30.0%
2019	1	5.0%
2020	4	20.0%
2021	2	10.0%
2022	1	5.0%
2023	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 9

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 5

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 4

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 2

E03F - SEWERS; Cesspools 2

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

D21D - Treatment OF THE Materials Before Passing TO THE Paper-making Machine 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH's lead technology class is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps), 45% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #14,670 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GMBH against Hitachi-lg Data Storage Korea, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.0/100 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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