Where does Knapp Holding GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Knapp Holding GmbH ranks #12,076 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 Knapp Holding GmbH hold?

Knapp Holding GmbH holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Knapp Holding GmbH's Innovation Score?

Knapp Holding GmbH has an Innovation Score of 38.0 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Knapp Holding GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Knapp Holding GmbH's recent grant velocity is +44% 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 Knapp Holding GmbH's patents?

Knapp Holding GmbH's patents average 14.4 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 Knapp 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

Knapp Holding GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Knapp Holding GmbH focus on?

Knapp Holding GmbH's top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 16 patents, ranking #119 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 16 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Knapp ranks #12,076 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 16 technology areas.

#12,076
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.0/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: +44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12076 · Foreign Corporation #12,076 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,076/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kobe Seiko Sho…
CPC-FOCUS B65G · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, 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 Knapp’s 38.0 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 11.3 pts (30%) Velocity 4.0 pts (11%) Breadth 14.1 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akebia Therapeutics · near

38
Opel Solar · near

38
CKnapp Sales · near

38
Guangdong Virtual… · near

38
Knapp Holding · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Knapp's Innovation Score is 38.0/100 (top 42% 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 Knapp?

Each dot is one of Knapp’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). Knapp’s own 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Knapp's grants concentrate

Knapp Holding GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 64% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Knapp sits between Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.) and L&T Technology Services Limited.

Knapp's three-year grant acceleration

Knapp Holding GmbH shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Kobe Seiko Sho (K…

25
Kanto Kagaku

25
Kenvue Brands

25
Kinetix

25
Knapp Investment

25
Konda

25
Kyocera Senco Ind…

25
L&T Technology Se…

25
Knapp Holding ◀

25

What this shows Knapp holds 25 patents at rank #12,076, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Knapp

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,076 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Knapp, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices), Knapp ranks #119 of 1,746 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Guangdong Virtual Reality Technology Co., Ltd. 38 CKnapp Sales, Inc. 38 Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. 38 Opel Solar, Inc. 38

Knapp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% 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.

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Knapp Holding GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.0%
2016	1	4.0%
2017	2	8.0%
2018	1	4.0%
2019	3	12.0%
2020	5	20.0%
2021	2	8.0%
2022	2	8.0%
2023	2	8.0%
2024	2	8.0%
2025partial year	3	12.0%

Which technologies does Knapp Holding GmbH patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 16

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 6

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 5

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 2

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 1

F16P - Safety Devices IN GENERAL; ; Safety Devices FOR Presses 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 1

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

Top 15 of 16 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

Knapp Holding GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Knapp Holding GmbH's lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 64% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #12,076 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Knapp Holding GmbH against Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.0/100 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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