Where does Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH ranks #8,633 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 Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH hold?

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH's Innovation Score?

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH has an Innovation Score of 52.6 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH focus on?

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 20 patents, ranking #81 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

Is Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH's patents?

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH's patents average 13.3 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 Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg 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

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Liebherr-aerospace ranks #8,633 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 42 technology areas.

#8,633
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8633 · Foreign Corporation #8,633 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,633/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Khalifa University…
CPC-WIDE B64C · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (±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 Liebherr-aerospace’s 52.6 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 12.6 pts (24%) Velocity 9.2 pts (17%) Breadth 22.9 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ferring B V · near

53
Grammarly · near

53
Iteris · near

53
Liebherr-aerospace… · this assignee

53
Sierra Nevada · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Liebherr-aerospace's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (top 10% 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 Liebherr-aerospace?

Each dot is one of Liebherr-aerospace’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). Liebherr-aerospace’s own 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Liebherr-aerospace's grants concentrate

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 54.1% of grants classified under B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Liebherr-aerospace sits between Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research and Life Technologies AS.

Liebherr-aerospace's three-year grant acceleration

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Khalifa Universit…

37
Kite Pharma

37
Lensvector

37
Leoni Bordnetz-sy…

37
Lamplight Farms I…

37
Lenovo (United St…

37
Liebert

37
Life AS

37
Liebherr-aerospac… ◀

37

What this shows Liebherr-aerospace holds 37 patents at rank #8,629, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Liebherr-aerospace

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,629 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Liebherr-aerospace's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Liebherr-aerospace, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64C (Aeroplanes), Liebherr-aerospace ranks #81 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Grammarly, Inc. 53 Sierra Nevada Company, LLC 53 Iteris, Inc. 53 Ferring B.V. 53

Liebherr-aerospace's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.4%
2016	5	13.5%
2017	3	8.1%
2018	4	10.8%
2019	4	10.8%
2020	3	8.1%
2021	1	2.7%
2022	7	18.9%
2023	4	10.8%
2025partial year	4	10.8%

Which technologies does Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 20

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 12

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 6

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 2

B21K - Making Forged OR Pressed Metal Products, e.g. Horse-shoes, Rivets, Bolts OR Wheels 2

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

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

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 54.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #8,633 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH against Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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.

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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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