Where does Koenig & Bauer AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Koenig & Bauer AG ranks #2,165 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 Koenig & Bauer AG hold?

Koenig & Bauer AG holds 182 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is Koenig & Bauer AG's Innovation Score?

Koenig & Bauer AG has an Innovation Score of 58.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Koenig & Bauer AG focus on?

Koenig & Bauer AG's top technology area is B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses) with 127 patents, ranking #1 of 286 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

Is Koenig & Bauer AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Koenig & Bauer AG's recent grant velocity is +115% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Koenig & Bauer AG's patents?

Koenig & Bauer AG's patents average 15.1 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 Koenig & Bauer AG 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

Koenig & Bauer AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 182 granted patents across 42 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: B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Koenig ranks #2,165 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 182 patents across 42 technology areas.

#2,165
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: +115%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2165 · Foreign Corporation #2,165 · 182 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 182 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,165/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH American Greetings
CPC-WIDE B41F · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +115% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: American Greetings Corporation (±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 Koenig’s 58.1 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 18.0 pts (31%) Velocity 8.1 pts (14%) Breadth 22.9 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Colorado School of… · near

58
Five AI · near

58
Koenig & Bauer · this assignee

58
Nanjing Agricultural… · near

58
Wacker Chemie · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Koenig's Innovation Score is 58.1/100 (top 5% 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 Koenig?

Each dot is one of Koenig’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). Koenig’s own 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Koenig's grants concentrate

Koenig & Bauer AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 69.8% of grants classified under B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (30 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Koenig sits between Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch and TPK Touch Solutions (XIAMEN) Inc..

Koenig's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Koenig & Bauer AG moved from 60 to 73 grants (1.22x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #764. See the growth leaderboard.

Wuhan Tianma Micr…

183
American Greetings

182
Beijing Qihoo Tec…

182
Coopper Tire & Ru…

182
Konica Minolta Bu…

182
Novelis

182
Pall

182
TPK Touch Solutio…

182
Koenig & Bauer ◀

182

What this shows Koenig holds 182 patents at rank #2,165, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Koenig

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,165 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Koenig, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses), Koenig ranks #1 of 286 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Wacker Chemie AG 58 Colorado School of Mines 58 Nanjing Agricultural University 58 Five AI Limited 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.1 here).

TRW Automotive GMBH 15.1 avg Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. 15.1 avg Epcos AG 15.1 avg Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. 15.1 avg

Koenig's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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

Koenig & Bauer AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	2.2%
2016	5	2.7%
2017	8	4.4%
2018	14	7.7%
2019	21	11.5%
2020	19	10.4%
2021	20	11.0%
2022	30	16.5%
2023	22	12.1%
2024	21	11.5%
2025partial year	18	9.9%

Which technologies does Koenig & Bauer AG patent most?

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 127

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 55

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 49

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 45

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 15

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 13

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 13

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 8

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 7

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 3

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 3

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

Top 15 of 42 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

Koenig & Bauer AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Koenig & Bauer AG's lead technology class is B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses), 69.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41F
Ranked #2,165 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Koenig & Bauer AG against Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.1/100 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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