Where does Liebherr Machines Bulle SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Liebherr Machines Bulle SA ranks #9,303 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 Machines Bulle SA hold?

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Liebherr Machines Bulle SA's Innovation Score?

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% 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 Machines Bulle SA focus on?

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA's top technology area is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof) with 14 patents, ranking #102 of 574 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Is Liebherr Machines Bulle SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA's recent grant velocity is +156% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Liebherr Machines Bulle SA's patents?

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA's patents average 17.4 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 Liebherr Machines Bulle SA 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 Machines Bulle SA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 31 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: F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Liebherr ranks #9,303 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 31 technology areas.

#9,303
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +156%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9303 · Foreign Corporation #9,303 · 34 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,303/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kdesign
CPC-FOCUS F02M · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +156% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kdesign GmbH (±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’s 56.6 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 12.3 pts (22%) Velocity 14.2 pts (25%) Breadth 19.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Coinbase · near

57
Gwangju Institute… · near

57
Caterpillar… · near

57
Liebherr Machines… · this assignee

57
Lutron · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Liebherr's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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?

Each dot is one of Liebherr’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’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Liebherr's grants concentrate

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 41.2% of grants classified under F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Liebherr sits between Kyphon Sarl and Leica Microsystems (Schweiz) AG.

Liebherr's three-year grant acceleration

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA shows 17 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.

Kyphon Sarl

34
Kdesign

34
Korea Internet &…

34
Layer3 TV

34
Logicdata & Softw…

34
Ltag Systems

34
Landscape Structu…

34
Leica Microsystem…

34
Liebherr Machines… ◀

34

What this shows Liebherr holds 34 patents at rank #9,301, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Liebherr

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,301 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Liebherr, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…), Liebherr ranks #102 of 574 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. 57 Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. 57 Coinbase, Inc. 57 Gwangju Institute OF Science AND Technology 57

Liebherr's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 Machines Bulle SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.9%
2016	1	2.9%
2017	4	11.8%
2018	1	2.9%
2019	2	5.9%
2020	2	5.9%
2021	4	11.8%
2022	3	8.8%
2023	5	14.7%
2024	9	26.5%
2025partial year	2	5.9%

Which technologies does Liebherr Machines Bulle SA patent most?

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 14

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 14

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 10

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 9

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 6

F03C - Positive-displacement Engines Driven BY Liquids 4

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 3

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 3

B01D - Separation 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 3

F01B - Machines OR Engines, IN General OR OF Positive-displacement Type, e.g. Steam Engines 3

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 2

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 2

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

Top 15 of 31 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 Machines Bulle SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA's lead technology class is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof), 41.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02M
Ranked #9,303 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Liebherr Machines Bulle SA against Kyphon Sarl, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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.

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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