Where does Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG ranks #32,475 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 Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 41.8 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%).

Is Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 17.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 8 patents, ranking #125 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions 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 PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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 #32,475 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 9 technology areas.

#32,475
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R32475 · Foreign Corporation #32,475 · 8 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #32,475/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Medicus Engineering…
CPC-NARROW A47J · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Medicus Engineering APS (±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 Melitta’s 41.8 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 7.6 pts (18%) Velocity 13.3 pts (32%) Breadth 10.6 pts (25%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Melitta Professional… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Melitta's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (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 Melitta?

Each dot is one of Melitta’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). Melitta’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Melitta's grants concentrate

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Melitta sits between Medicus Engineering APS and Meta Intelligence LLC.

Melitta's three-year grant acceleration

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Medicus Engineeri…

8
Medicustek

8
Medizinische Univ…

8
Mektec

8
Meon Medical Solu…

8
Mesnac

8
Messika Group

8
Meta Intelligence

8
Melitta Professio… ◀

8

What this shows Melitta holds 8 patents at rank #32,426, 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 #32,426 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)

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 · 2017–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	25.0%
2020	2	25.0%
2023	1	12.5%
2024	3	37.5%

Which technologies does Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 8

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 3

A01J - Manufacture OF Dairy Products 2

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 2

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #32,475 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GMBH & Co. KG against Medicus Engineering APS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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

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