Where does Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG ranks #9,549 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 Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 42.7 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application) with 14 patents, ranking #56 of 794 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 17.0 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 Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG 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

Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mahle ranks #9,549 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 33 technology areas.

#9,549
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.7/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9549 · Foreign Corporation #9,549 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,549/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mesoblast Internatio…
CPC-FOCUS F28F · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mesoblast International Sàrl (±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 Mahle’s 42.7 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 12.2 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 20.3 pts (48%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gema Switzerland · near

43
Mahle Behr & KG · this assignee

43
Taoglas Group Holdings · near

43
Xaar Technology · near

43
Kose · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mahle's Innovation Score is 42.7/100 (top 30% 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 Mahle?

Each dot is one of Mahle’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). Mahle’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mahle's grants concentrate

Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 42.4% of grants classified under F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Mahle sits between Modular Mining Systems, Inc. and Moresco Corporation.

Modular Mining Sy…

33
Modumetal

33
Montage Technolog…

33
Moynat Paris SAS

33
Mesoblast Interna…

33
Method Products P…

33
Monterey Research

33
Moresco

33
Mahle Behr & KG ◀

33

What this shows Mahle holds 33 patents at rank #9,558, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mahle

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,558 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mahle, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus), Mahle ranks #56 of 794 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Xaar Technology Limited 43 Gema Switzerland GMBH 43 Taoglas Group Holdings Limited 43 Kose Corporation 43

Mahle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	39.4%
2016	1	3.0%
2017	5	15.2%
2018	6	18.2%
2019	7	21.2%
2020	1	3.0%

Which technologies does Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 14

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 12

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 10

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 9

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 7

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 5

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 4

F02G - HOT GAS OR Combustion-product Positive-displacement Engine Plants ; USE OF Waste Heat OF Combustion ENGINES; NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 3

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 2

Top 15 of 33 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

Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application), 42.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F28F
Ranked #9,549 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG against Modular Mining Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.7/100 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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