Where does Linde GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Linde GmbH ranks #1,110 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 Linde GmbH hold?

Linde GmbH holds 382 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 118 technology areas.

What is Linde GmbH's Innovation Score?

Linde GmbH has an Innovation Score of 57.6 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%).

Is Linde GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Linde GmbH's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Linde GmbH's patents?

Linde GmbH's patents average 16.1 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 Linde 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

Linde GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Linde GmbH focus on?

Linde GmbH's top technology area is F25J (Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State) with 95 patents, ranking #3 of 125 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 118 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 382 granted patents across 118 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: F25J (Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Linde ranks #1,110 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 382 patents across 118 technology areas.

#1,110
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.6/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1110 · Foreign Corporation #1,110 · 382 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 382 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,110/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Oilwell Varco
CPC-WIDE F25J · 118 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Oilwell Varco, L.P. (±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 Linde’s 57.6 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 20.5 pts (36%) Velocity 2.4 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aputure Imaging… · near

58
Janssen Biotech · near

58
Linde · this assignee

58
Promerus · near

58
S C Johnson & SON · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Linde's Innovation Score is 57.6/100 (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 Linde?

Each dot is one of Linde’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). Linde’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Linde's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Linde GmbH received 146 grants versus 217 in 2015–2019 (-33% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 57 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 16. Lead class F25J accounts for 24.9% of the portfolio across 118 subclasses. Volume neighbours: JNC Corporation (#1,106) and BSH Home Appliances Corporation (#1,114).

Linde's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Linde GmbH moved from 150 to 53 grants (0.35x 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 #2,939. See the growth leaderboard.

JNC

385
Kobelco Construct…

384
Power Integrations

384
Johns Manville

383
National Oilwell…

382
Linde ◀

382
TE Connectivity S…

381
Aesculap

380
BSH Home Applianc…

380

What this shows Linde holds 382 patents at rank #1,110, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Linde

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,110 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F25J (Liquefaction)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Linde, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F25J (Liquefaction), Linde ranks #3 of 125 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Janssen Biotech, Inc. 58 S. C. Johnson & SON, Inc. 58 Promerus, LLC 58 Aputure Imaging Industries Co., Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Denso International America, Inc. 16.1 avg Basf SE 16.1 avg Applied Biosystems, LLC 16.1 avg Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V. 16.1 avg

Linde'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.

View data table

Linde GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	41	10.7%
2016	34	8.9%
2017	41	10.7%
2018	44	11.5%
2019	57	14.9%
2020	54	14.1%
2021	39	10.2%
2022	16	4.2%
2023	21	5.5%
2024	16	4.2%
2025partial year	19	5.0%

Which technologies does Linde GmbH patent most?

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 95

B01D - Separation 78

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 61

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 51

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 42

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 42

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 37

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 34

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 32

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 28

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 28

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 22

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 18

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 18

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 17

Top 15 of 118 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

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

Linde GmbH's lead technology class is F25J (Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State), 24.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F25J
Ranked #1,110 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Linde GmbH against JNC Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.6/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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