Where does M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. ranks #11,345 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 M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. hold?

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A.'s Innovation Score?

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A.'s recent grant velocity is +129% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A.'s patents?

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A.'s patents average 11.6 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

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A.

Q: What technology areas does M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. focus on?

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A.'s top technology area is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal) with 23 patents, ranking #30 of 818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. 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 - 27 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, M.e.p. ranks #11,345 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 5 technology areas.

#11,345
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: +129%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11345 · Foreign Corporation #11,345 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,345/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH LimFlow
CPC-NARROW B21D · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +129% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LimFlow 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 M.e.p.’s 43.7 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 11.5 pts (26%) Velocity 17.3 pts (40%) Breadth 7.9 pts (18%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing Vcore… · near

44
DEB IP · near

44
Great Lakes… · near

44
M E P Macchine… · this assignee

44
Shinmaywa Industries · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows M.e.p.'s Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 27% 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 M.e.p.?

Each dot is one of M.e.p.’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). M.e.p.’s own 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 13.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where M.e.p.'s grants concentrate

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 85.2% of grants classified under B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, M.e.p. sits between LimFlow GmbH and Medal Sports (TAIWAN) Corporation.

M.e.p.'s three-year grant acceleration

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Limflow

27
Liposcience

27
Lovepop

27
Loyola University…

27
Magna Closures S…

27
Manitowoc Foodser…

27
Mavig

27
Medal Sports (Tai…

27
M E P Macchine El… ◀

27

What this shows M.E.P. holds 27 patents at rank #11,334, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near MEP

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,334 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for MEP, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes), MEP ranks #30 of 818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

DEB IP Limited 44 Shinmaywa Industries, Ltd. 44 Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc. 44 Beijing Vcore Technology Co., Ltd. 44

M.e.p.'s Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.7%
2017	3	11.1%
2018	1	3.7%
2019	2	7.4%
2020	2	7.4%
2021	1	3.7%
2022	8	29.6%
2023	3	11.1%
2024	2	7.4%
2025partial year	4	14.8%

Which technologies does M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. patent most?

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 23

B21F - Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire 18

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 12

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 3

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 2

Top 5 of 5 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

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A.'s lead technology class is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal), 85.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21D
Ranked #11,345 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S. P.A. against LimFlow GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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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