Where does Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG ranks #22,971 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 Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 29.4 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +133% 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 Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 12.3 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 Single Portions 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 Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is 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) with 8 patents, ranking #446 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: 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 F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Melitta ranks #22,971 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 6 technology areas.

#22,971
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.4/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22971 · Foreign Corporation #22,971 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,971/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Medigene Immunothera…
CPC-NARROW B65D · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Medigene Immunotherapies GMBH (±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 29.4 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 8.9 pts (30%) Velocity 4.4 pts (15%) Breadth 8.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Melitta Single… · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Melitta's Innovation Score is 29.4/100 (30th percentile 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 12.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Melitta's grants concentrate

Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under 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 F). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Melitta sits between Medigene Immunotherapies GMBH and Mersen France SB SAS.

Melitta's three-year grant acceleration

Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Medigene Immunoth…

12
Medipost

12
Meiji University

12
Meissner Filtrati…

12
Memsen

12
Menlo Therapeutics

12
Merry Yard Intern…

12
Mersen France SB…

12
Melitta Single Po… ◀

12

What this shows Melitta holds 12 patents at rank #22,939, 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 #22,939 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

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)

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	25.0%
2021	3	25.0%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	2	16.7%
2024	1	8.3%
2025partial year	2	16.7%

Which technologies does Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

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 8

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

B01D - Separation 1

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 1

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

Top 6 of 6 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 Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is 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 F), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #22,971 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Melitta Single Portions GMBH & Co. KG against Medigene Immunotherapies GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.4/100 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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