Where does Krohne Messtechnik GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Krohne Messtechnik GmbH ranks #3,202 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 Krohne Messtechnik GmbH hold?

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH holds 117 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Krohne Messtechnik GmbH's Innovation Score?

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH has an Innovation Score of 49.2 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Krohne Messtechnik GmbH focus on?

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH's top technology area is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume) with 66 patents, ranking #11 of 1,205 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

Is Krohne Messtechnik GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH's recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Krohne Messtechnik GmbH's patents?

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH's patents average 11.4 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 Krohne Messtechnik 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

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 117 granted patents across 45 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Krohne ranks #3,202 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 117 patents across 45 technology areas.

#3,202
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.2/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3202 · Foreign Corporation #3,202 · 117 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 117 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,202/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Infobridge PTE
CPC-WIDE G01F · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Infobridge PTE. 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 Krohne’s 49.2 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 16.5 pts (34%) Velocity 2.2 pts (4%) Breadth 23.7 pts (48%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Basf Plant Science · near

49
Cummins-Allison · near

49
Krohne Messtechnik · this assignee

49
Oracle America · near

49
Universal Lighting · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Krohne's Innovation Score is 49.2/100 (top 15% 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 Krohne?

Each dot is one of Krohne’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). Krohne’s own 11.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Krohne's grants concentrate

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 56.4% of grants classified under G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (21 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Krohne sits between Infobridge PTE. Ltd. and Nasdaq Technology AB.

Krohne's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Krohne Messtechnik GmbH moved from 46 to 15 grants (0.33x 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 #2,970. See the growth leaderboard.

Infobridge PTE

117
John Mezzalingua…

117
Kansai Paint

117
Karlsruher Instit…

117
Leidos

117
Merry (Shenzhen)

117
Modine Manufactur…

117
Nasdaq Technology…

117
Krohne Messtechnik ◀

117

What this shows Krohne holds 117 patents at rank #3,202, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Krohne

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,202 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01F (Measuring Volume)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Krohne, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01F (Measuring Volume), Krohne ranks #11 of 1,205 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Basf Plant Science Company GmbH 49 Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. 49 Oracle America, Inc. 49 Cummins-Allison Corp. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.4 here).

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC 11.4 avg Waseda University 11.4 avg Riken Technos Corporation 11.4 avg W.C. Bradley Co. 11.4 avg

Krohne's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Krohne Messtechnik GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	17.9%
2016	11	9.4%
2017	10	8.5%
2018	14	12.0%
2019	20	17.1%
2020	18	15.4%
2021	8	6.8%
2022	10	8.5%
2023	3	2.6%
2024	2	1.7%

Which technologies does Krohne Messtechnik GmbH patent most?

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 66

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 22

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 16

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 9

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 8

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 4

H04B - Transmission 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H04Q - Selecting 4

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

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

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH's lead technology class is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume), 56.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01F
Ranked #3,202 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Krohne Messtechnik GmbH against Infobridge PTE. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.2/100 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

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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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