Where does Klingelnberg GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Klingelnberg GMBH ranks #6,672 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 Klingelnberg GMBH hold?

Klingelnberg GMBH holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Klingelnberg GMBH's Innovation Score?

Klingelnberg GMBH has an Innovation Score of 41.7 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Klingelnberg GMBH focus on?

Klingelnberg GMBH's top technology area is B23F (Making Gears OR Toothed Racks) with 35 patents, ranking #3 of 50 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Klingelnberg GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Klingelnberg GMBH's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Klingelnberg GMBH's patents?

Klingelnberg GMBH's patents average 14.0 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 Klingelnberg 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

Klingelnberg GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 19 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: B23F (Making Gears OR Toothed Racks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Klingelnberg ranks #6,672 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 19 technology areas.

#6,672
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.7/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6672 · Foreign Corporation #6,672 · 50 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,672/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kagoshima University
CPC-FOCUS B23F · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kagoshima University (±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 Klingelnberg’s 41.7 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 13.6 pts (33%) Velocity 4.3 pts (10%) Breadth 15.4 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bayer Animal Health · near

42
Capsovision · near

42
Cujo · near

42
GN Resound A/S · near

42
Klingelnberg · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Klingelnberg's Innovation Score is 41.7/100 (top 32% 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 Klingelnberg?

Each dot is one of Klingelnberg’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). Klingelnberg’s own 14.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Klingelnberg's grants concentrate

Klingelnberg GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under B23F (Making Gears OR Toothed Racks). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Klingelnberg sits between Kamstrup A/S and Lamb Weston, Inc..

Klingelnberg's three-year grant acceleration

Klingelnberg GMBH shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Kamstrup A/S

50
Keiwa Incorporated

50
KHN Solutions

50
Kiss Nail Products

50
Kosmek

50
Kagoshima Univers…

50
Koss

50
Lamb Weston

50
Klingelnberg ◀

50

What this shows Klingelnberg holds 50 patents at rank #6,670, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Klingelnberg

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,670 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23F (Making Gears OR Toothed Racks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Klingelnberg, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B23F (Making Gears OR Toothed Racks), Klingelnberg ranks #3 of 50 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Capsovision, Inc. 42 Cujo LLC 42 Bayer Animal Health GmbH 42 GN Resound A/S 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.0 here).

Lifetech Scientific (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 14.0 avg MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Inc. 14.0 avg Asia Optical International Ltd. 14.0 avg Kellogg Brown & Root LLC 14.0 avg

Klingelnberg's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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.

View data table

Klingelnberg GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	16.0%
2016	4	8.0%
2017	5	10.0%
2018	3	6.0%
2019	6	12.0%
2020	9	18.0%
2021	2	4.0%
2022	4	8.0%
2023	5	10.0%
2024	2	4.0%
2025partial year	2	4.0%

Which technologies does Klingelnberg GMBH patent most?

B23F - Making Gears OR Toothed Racks 35

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 8

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 6

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 6

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

B23B - TURNING; Boring 3

F16H - Gearing 2

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Klingelnberg GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Klingelnberg GMBH's lead technology class is B23F (Making Gears OR Toothed Racks), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23F
Ranked #6,672 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Klingelnberg GMBH against Kamstrup A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.7/100 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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