Where does IMO Holding GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), IMO Holding GMBH ranks #12,486 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 IMO Holding GMBH hold?

IMO Holding GMBH holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is IMO Holding GMBH's Innovation Score?

IMO Holding GMBH has an Innovation Score of 42.5 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%).

Is IMO Holding GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

IMO Holding GMBH's recent grant velocity is -86% 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 IMO Holding GMBH's patents?

IMO Holding GMBH's patents average 20.4 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 IMO Holding 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

IMO Holding GMBH

Q: What technology areas does IMO Holding GMBH focus on?

IMO Holding GMBH's top technology area is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings) with 21 patents, ranking #62 of 1,334 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, IMO ranks #12,486 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 23 technology areas.

#12,486
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: -86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12486 · Foreign Corporation #12,486 · 24 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
UPPER-Q #12,486/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hyland Switzerland…
CPC-FOCUS F16C · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -86% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hyland Switzerland Sarl (±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 IMO’s 42.5 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 (26%) Velocity 2.2 pts (5%) Breadth 17.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
IMO Holding · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows IMO's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (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 IMO?

Each dot is one of IMO’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). IMO’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where IMO's grants concentrate

IMO Holding GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 87.5% of grants classified under F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, IMO sits between Hyland Switzerland Sarl and Intermec, Inc..

IMO's three-year grant acceleration

IMO Holding GMBH shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Hyland Switzerlan…

24
IB Appliances US…

24
ID Quantique

24
Iljin

24
Indian Institute…

24
Industrias Alen d…

24
Intelligent Intel…

24
Intermec

24
IMO Holding ◀

24

What this shows IMO holds 24 patents at rank #12,485, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near IMO

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,485 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16C (Shafts)

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

IMO'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 · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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IMO Holding GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	16.7%
2016	9	37.5%
2017	3	12.5%
2018	4	16.7%
2019	1	4.2%
2020	1	4.2%
2021	1	4.2%
2022	1	4.2%

Which technologies does IMO Holding GMBH patent most?

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 21

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 14

F03D - Wind Motors 12

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 7

F16H - Gearing 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 1

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 1

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

F03B - Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids 1

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

C23F - Non-mechanical Removal OF Metallic Material From Surface ; Inhibiting Corrosion OF Metallic Material OR Incrustation IN GENERAL; Multi-step Processes FOR Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material Involving AT Least ONE Process Provided FOR IN Class C23 AND AT Least ONE Process Covered BY Subclass C21d 1

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 1

Top 15 of 23 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

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IMO Holding GMBH's lead technology class is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16C
Ranked #12,486 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare IMO Holding GMBH against Hyland Switzerland Sarl, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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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