Where does Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG ranks #7,581 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 Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 40.9 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 26 patents, ranking #709 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +39% 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 Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 10.7 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 Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik 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

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 27 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Karl ranks #7,581 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 27 technology areas.

#7,581
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (40.9/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: +39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7581 · Foreign Corporation #7,581 · 43 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,581/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Japan Petroleum…
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., 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 Karl’s 40.9 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 13.1 pts (32%) Velocity 3.0 pts (7%) Breadth 18.4 pts (45%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GEA Process… · near

41
Gogo · near

41
Idenix Pharmaceuticals · near

41
Karl Leibinger… · this assignee

41
OPower · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Karl's Innovation Score is 40.9/100 (top 34% 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 Karl?

Each dot is one of Karl’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). Karl’s own 10.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Karl's grants concentrate

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 60.5% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Karl sits between Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. and Lovevery, Inc..

Karl's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG moved from 20 to 9 grants (0.45x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Japan Petroleum E…

43
Jiangsu Xcmg Cons…

43
Johnson Matthey D…

43
KAI R&D Center

43
KEY Foundry

43
Kito

43
Leer Group

43
Lovevery

43
Karl Leibinger Me… ◀

43

What this shows Karl holds 43 patents at rank #7,581, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Karl

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,581 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Karl, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Karl ranks #709 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

OPower, Inc. 41 Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC 41 Gogo LLC 41 GEA Process Engineering A/S 41

Karl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	7.0%
2017	9	20.9%
2018	2	4.7%
2019	4	9.3%
2020	5	11.6%
2021	11	25.6%
2022	6	14.0%
2023	2	4.7%
2024	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 26

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 7

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 6

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 5

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 4

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 3

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 3

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 3

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 3

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 3

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

Top 15 of 27 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

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 60.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #7,581 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG against Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.9/100 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

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