Where does Linde Material Handling GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Linde Material Handling GmbH ranks #29,298 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 Material Handling GmbH hold?

Linde Material Handling GmbH holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Linde Material Handling GmbH's Innovation Score?

Linde Material Handling GmbH has an Innovation Score of 26.8 out of 100 (21st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Linde Material Handling GmbH's recent grant velocity is -86% 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 Material Handling GmbH's patents?

Linde Material Handling GmbH's patents average 14.7 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 Material Handling 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 Material Handling GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Linde Material Handling GmbH focus on?

Linde Material Handling GmbH's top technology area is B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load) with 8 patents, ranking #46 of 447 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 8 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: B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Linde ranks #29,298 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 8 technology areas.

#29,298
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 21st percentile
by Innovation Score (26.8/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: -86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29298 · Foreign Corporation #29,298 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #29,298/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Light Prescriptions…
CPC-NARROW B66F · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -86% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (±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 26.8 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 8.0 pts (30%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Clairvoyant Networks · near

27
Lightbend · near

27
Linde Material… · this assignee

27
MSD Wellcome Trust… · near

27
S9 · near

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Linde's Innovation Score is 26.8/100 (21st percentile 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 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.2 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.

Where Linde's grants concentrate

Linde Material Handling GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Linde sits between Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC and Litania Sports Group, Inc..

Light Prescriptio…

9
Lightning Protect…

9
Lightspeed

9
Lin'an Thumb Clea…

9
Linhai Jiade Leis…

9
Liquid Light

9
Lit Motors

9
Litania Sports Gr…

9
Linde Material Ha… ◀

9

What this shows Linde holds 9 patents at rank #29,300, 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 #29,300 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B66F (Hoisting)

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 B66F (Hoisting), Linde ranks #46 of 447 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (27 here).

Lightbend, Inc. 27 MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories PVT. Ltd. 27 Clairvoyant Networks, Inc. 27 S9, LLC 27

Linde's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 21st percentile higher than 21% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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 Material Handling GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	11.1%
2017	1	11.1%
2018	1	11.1%
2019	4	44.4%
2021	1	11.1%
2025partial year	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Linde Material Handling GmbH patent most?

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 8

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 2

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Linde Material Handling GmbH's lead technology class is B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B66F
Ranked #29,298 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Linde Material Handling GmbH against Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 26.8/100 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

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.