Where does Knauf Gips KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Knauf Gips KG ranks #5,371 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 Knauf Gips KG hold?

Knauf Gips KG holds 64 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Knauf Gips KG's Innovation Score?

Knauf Gips KG has an Innovation Score of 56.4 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Knauf Gips KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Knauf Gips KG's recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Knauf Gips KG's patents?

Knauf Gips KG's patents average 15.0 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 Knauf Gips 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

Knauf Gips KG

Q: What technology areas does Knauf Gips KG focus on?

Knauf Gips KG's top technology area is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone) with 24 patents, ranking #50 of 1,052 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 64 granted patents across 45 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Knauf ranks #5,371 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 64 patents across 45 technology areas.

#5,371
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.4/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5371 · Foreign Corporation #5,371 · 64 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 64 grants
UPPER-Q #5,371/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Infoblox
CPC-WIDE C04B · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Infoblox 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 Knauf’s 56.4 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 14.4 pts (26%) Velocity 9.3 pts (16%) Breadth 23.7 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Exel Industries · near

56
Jeol · near

56
Knauf Gips KG · this assignee

56
Typhon Technology… · near

56
Valeo North America · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Knauf's Innovation Score is 56.4/100 (top 6% 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 Knauf?

Each dot is one of Knauf’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). Knauf’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Knauf's grants concentrate

Knauf Gips KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 37.5% of grants classified under C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Knauf sits between Innovative Sonic Corporation and Light Field Lab, Inc..

Knauf's three-year grant acceleration

Knauf Gips KG shows 25 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Innovative Sonic

64
Infoblox

64
JDA Software Group

64
Kuwait University

64
Kunshan New Flat…

64
Kyocera AVX Compo…

64
Leapers

64
Light Field Lab

64
Knauf Gips KG ◀

64

What this shows Knauf holds 64 patents at rank #5,371, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Knauf

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,371 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Knauf, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C04B (Lime), Knauf ranks #50 of 1,052 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Typhon Technology Solutions (U.S.), LLC 56 Exel Industries 56 Valeo North America, Inc. 56 Jeol Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Keithley Instruments, LLC 15.0 avg Robotis Co., Ltd. 15.0 avg Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation 15.0 avg Ningbo Semiconductor International Corporation 15.0 avg

Knauf's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Knauf Gips KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	3.1%
2017	1	1.6%
2018	4	6.3%
2019	3	4.7%
2020	8	12.5%
2021	7	10.9%
2022	4	6.3%
2023	5	7.8%
2024	16	25.0%
2025partial year	14	21.9%

Which technologies does Knauf Gips KG patent most?

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 24

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 23

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 19

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 16

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 15

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 10

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 7

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 4

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

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

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

B01D - Separation 2

Top 15 of 45 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

Knauf Gips KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Knauf Gips KG's lead technology class is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone), 37.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #5,371 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Knauf Gips KG against Innovative Sonic Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.4/100 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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