Where does Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH ranks #3,848 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-Components Biberach GmbH hold?

Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH holds 94 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH's Innovation Score?

Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH 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 Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH focus on?

Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH's top technology area is B66C (CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles) with 30 patents, ranking #13 of 428 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

Is Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH's recent grant velocity is +46% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH's patents?

Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH's patents average 18.2 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-Components Biberach 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-Components Biberach GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 94 granted patents across 65 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: B66C (CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Liebherr-components ranks #3,848 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 94 patents across 65 technology areas.

#3,848
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3848 · Foreign Corporation #3,848 · 94 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 94 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,848/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Huizhou China Star…
CPC-WIDE B66C · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., 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 Liebherr-components’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 15.7 pts (27%) Velocity 6.5 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (19%)

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What this shows Liebherr-components'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 Liebherr-components?

Each dot is one of Liebherr-components’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-components’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Liebherr-components's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH received 51 grants versus 35 in 2015–2019 (+46% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 13 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 2. Lead class B66C accounts for 31.9% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd. (#3,844) and MiMedx Group, Inc. (#3,852).

Liebherr-components's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH moved from 32 to 31 grants (0.97x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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What this shows Liebherr-Components holds 94 patents at rank #3,848, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Liebherr-Components

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,848 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B66C (Cranes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Liebherr-Components, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B66C (Cranes), Liebherr-Components ranks #13 of 428 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Foundation for Research and Business, Seoul National University of Science and Technology 58 Indiana University Research AND Technology Corporation 58 Kyoto University 58 Korea Institute OF Materials Science 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Norton (Waterford) Limited 18.2 avg Astec International Limited 18.2 avg MoneyGram International, Inc. 18.2 avg Flir Systems, Inc. 18.2 avg

Liebherr-components'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.

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Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.3%
2016	2	2.1%
2017	7	7.4%
2018	10	10.6%
2019	12	12.8%
2020	12	12.8%
2021	8	8.5%
2022	9	9.6%
2023	13	13.8%
2024	9	9.6%
2025partial year	8	8.5%

Which technologies does Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH patent most?

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 30

B66D - CAPSTANS; WINCHES; Tackles, e.g. Pulley BLOCKS; Hoists 24

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 16

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 14

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 13

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 13

F16H - Gearing 12

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 10

F03D - Wind Motors 9

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 7

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 7

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 5

Top 15 of 65 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH's lead technology class is B66C (CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles), 31.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B66C
Ranked #3,848 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH against Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd., 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

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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

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