Where does Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG ranks #14,129 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 Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 50.3 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 15.0 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 Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone 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

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 9 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: A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Maschinenfabrik ranks #14,129 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 9 technology areas.

#14,129
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14129 · Foreign Corporation #14,129 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,129/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mac LTT
CPC-NARROW A01D · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mac LTT, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Maschinenfabrik… · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Maschinenfabrik's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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.

Where Maschinenfabrik's grants concentrate

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 61.9% of grants classified under A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Maschinenfabrik sits between Mac LTT, Inc. and Microsoft Licensing Technology, LLC.

Maschinenfabrik's three-year grant acceleration

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Mac LTT

21
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21
Malvern Panalytic…

21
Mara Renewables

21
Merichem

21
Miba Frictec

21
Microsurgical Tec…

21
Microsoft Licensi…

21
Maschinenfabrik B… ◀

21

What this shows Maschinenfabrik holds 21 patents at rank #14,137, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Maschinenfabrik

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,137 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01D (Harvesting)

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

Maschinenfabrik's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	28.6%
2016	2	9.5%
2017	2	9.5%
2021	1	4.8%
2023	1	4.8%
2024	4	19.0%
2025partial year	5	23.8%

Which technologies does Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 13

A01F - Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce 9

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 8

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

B30B - Presses IN General 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

F16H - Gearing 1

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

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#14,129

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing), 61.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01D
Ranked #14,129 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG against Mac LTT, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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.