Where does Leybold GmBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leybold GmBH ranks #10,986 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 Leybold GmBH hold?

Leybold GmBH holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Leybold GmBH's Innovation Score?

Leybold GmBH has an Innovation Score of 45.8 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Leybold GmBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Leybold GmBH's recent grant velocity is +233% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Leybold GmBH's patents?

Leybold GmBH'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 Leybold 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

Leybold GmBH

Q: What technology areas does Leybold GmBH focus on?

Leybold GmBH's top technology area is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps) with 13 patents, ranking #50 of 587 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Leybold ranks #10,986 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 20 technology areas.

#10,986
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.8/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: +233%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10986 · Foreign Corporation #10,986 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,986/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lake Products
CPC-FOCUS F04C · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +233% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lake Products Limited (±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 Leybold’s 45.8 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 11.6 pts (25%) Velocity 9.3 pts (20%) Breadth 15.8 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ArianeGroup · near

46
Leybold · this assignee

46
Meas France · near

46
Miba Sinter Austria · near

46
Unity IPR ApS · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Leybold's Innovation Score is 45.8/100 (top 22% 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 Leybold?

Each dot is one of Leybold’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). Leybold’s own 15.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Leybold's grants concentrate

Leybold GmBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 46.4% of grants classified under F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Leybold sits between Lake Products Limited and Makinarocks Co., Ltd..

Leybold's three-year grant acceleration

Leybold GmBH shows 14 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.

Lake Products

28
Laser Technology

28
Leeo

28
Levitation Scienc…

28
Linamar

28
Liqmeds Worldwide

28
Maersk Olie OG GA…

28
Makinarocks

28
Leybold ◀

28

What this shows Leybold holds 28 patents at rank #10,986, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Leybold

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,986 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Leybold, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04C (Rotary-piston), Leybold ranks #50 of 587 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

ArianeGroup GmbH 46 Meas France 46 Miba Sinter Austria GmbH 46 Unity IPR ApS 46

Leybold's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Leybold GmBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.6%
2018	1	3.6%
2019	4	14.3%
2020	1	3.6%
2021	5	17.9%
2022	6	21.4%
2023	3	10.7%
2024	5	17.9%
2025partial year	2	7.1%

Which technologies does Leybold GmBH patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 13

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 10

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 7

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 4

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 2

F05C - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Materials, Material Properties OR Material Characteristics FOR Machines, Engines OR Pumps Other Than Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines 2

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

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

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

F04F - Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY Using Inertia OF Fluid TO BE Pumped ; Siphons 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Leybold GmBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Leybold GmBH's lead technology class is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps), 46.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #10,986 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leybold GmBH against Lake Products Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.8/100 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

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