Where does K-fee System GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), K-fee System GMBH ranks #7,724 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 K-fee System GMBH hold?

K-fee System GMBH holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is K-fee System GMBH's Innovation Score?

K-fee System GMBH has an Innovation Score of 45.1 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is K-fee System GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

K-fee System GMBH's recent grant velocity is +182% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for K-fee System GMBH's patents?

K-fee System GMBH's patents average 12.7 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 K-fee System 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

K-fee System GMBH

Q: What technology areas does K-fee System GMBH focus on?

K-fee System GMBH's top technology area is B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages) with 28 patents, ranking #107 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, K-fee ranks #7,724 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 11 technology areas.

#7,724
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.1/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +182%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7724 · Foreign Corporation #7,724 · 42 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,724/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH IronRidge
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +182% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: IronRidge, 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 K-fee’s 45.1 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 13.0 pts (29%) Velocity 12.8 pts (28%) Breadth 11.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bradford · near

45
Crane & · near

45
Doosan · near

45
Euroimmun Medizinisc… · near

45
K-fee System · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows K-fee's Innovation Score is 45.1/100 (top 24% 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 K-fee?

Each dot is one of K-fee’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). K-fee’s own 12.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where K-fee's grants concentrate

K-fee System GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, K-fee sits between IronRidge, Inc. and Kichler Lighting LLC.

K-fee's three-year grant acceleration

K-fee System GMBH shows 23 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Ironridge

42
Itoki

42
Jess-link Products

42
JRD Communication

42
Kokuyo

42
Kong

42
Korea Railroad Re…

42
Kichler Lighting

42
K-fee System ◀

42

What this shows K-fee holds 42 patents at rank #7,724, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near K-fee

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,724 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in K-fee's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for K-fee, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), K-fee ranks #107 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Bradford Company 45 Doosan Corporation 45 Crane & Co., Inc. 45 Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG 45

K-fee's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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K-fee System GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	7.1%
2018	4	9.5%
2019	4	9.5%
2020	5	11.9%
2021	3	7.1%
2022	6	14.3%
2023	10	23.8%
2024	7	16.7%

Which technologies does K-fee System GMBH patent most?

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 28

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 22

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 14

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 7

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 7

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 5

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 5

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

Top 11 of 11 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

K-fee System GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

K-fee System GMBH's lead technology class is B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #7,724 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare K-fee System GMBH against IronRidge, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.1/100 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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