Where does Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG ranks #9,820 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 Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 41.9 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General) with 25 patents, ranking #45 of 516 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 16.9 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 Meiko Maschinenbau 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

Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 19 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: A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Meiko ranks #9,820 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 19 technology areas.

#9,820
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9820 · Foreign Corporation #9,820 · 32 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,820/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lancer
CPC-FOCUS A47L · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lancer Corporation (±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 Meiko’s 41.9 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 12.1 pts (29%) Velocity 4.2 pts (10%) Breadth 15.4 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Authentic8 · near

42
Meiko Maschinenbau… · this assignee

42
Mold-masters (2007) · near

42
ProSports · near

42
YouMail · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Meiko's Innovation Score is 41.9/100 (top 32% 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 Meiko?

Each dot is one of Meiko’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). Meiko’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Meiko's grants concentrate

Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 78.1% of grants classified under A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Meiko sits between Lancer Corporation and Maricap Oy.

Meiko's three-year grant acceleration

Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Lancer

32
Ledengin

32
Mastercard Mobile…

32
Medidata Solutions

32
Mips AB

32
Mitsubishi Heavy…

32
Mitsubishi Jidosh…

32
Maricap Oy

32
Meiko Maschinenba… ◀

32

What this shows Meiko holds 32 patents at rank #9,816, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Meiko

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,816 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Meiko, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning), Meiko ranks #45 of 516 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Mold-masters (2007) Limited 42 Authentic8, Inc. 42 YouMail, Inc. 42 ProSports Technologies, LLC 42

Meiko's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.1%
2016	4	12.5%
2017	3	9.4%
2018	3	9.4%
2019	5	15.6%
2020	5	15.6%
2021	1	3.1%
2022	1	3.1%
2023	2	6.3%
2024	4	12.5%
2025partial year	3	9.4%

Which technologies does Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 25

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 11

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 10

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 6

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 3

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 2

B01D - Separation 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 15 of 19 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

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

Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General), 78.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47L
Ranked #9,820 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG against Lancer Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.9/100 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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