Where does Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG ranks #24,789 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG hold?

Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 29.7 out of 100 (top 68% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG's patents?

Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG's patents average 10.9 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 Melitta Europa 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

Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG focus on?

Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG's top technology area is A47J (KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: A47J (KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Melitta ranks #24,789 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 5 technology areas.

#24,789
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 68%
by Innovation Score (29.7/100): 10.9
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24789 · Foreign Corporation #24,789 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,789/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH MEDEON BIODESIGN
CPC-NARROW A47J · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Medeon Biodesign, 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
Melitta Europa & KG · this assignee

30
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Melitta's Innovation Score is 29.7/100 (top 68% 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 Melitta's grants concentrate

Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under A47J (KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Melitta sits between Medeon Biodesign, Inc. and Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services.

Melitta's three-year grant acceleration

Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Medeon Biodesign

11
Medicomp Systems

11
Medimpact Healthc…

11
Meggitt Aerospace

11
MEP Tech

11
MERU Networks

11
Mhwirth

11
Michigan Health I…

11
Melitta Europa &… ◀

11

What this shows Melitta holds 11 patents at rank #24,745, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Melitta

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,745 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Melitta's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 Top 68% higher than 32% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	9.1%
2016	1	9.1%
2018	3	27.3%
2019	1	9.1%
2021	2	18.2%
2022	1	9.1%
2023	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Melitta Europa Gmbh & Co. KG patent most?

A47J - KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES 10

B01D - SEPARATION 1

B31D - MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBCLASSES B31B OR B31C 1

B31F - MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER 1

B65D - CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,789

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

29.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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