Where does Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG ranks #18,897 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 Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG hold?

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG's patents?

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG's patents average 11.5 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

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG focus on?

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG's top technology area is B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper) with 9 patents, ranking #30 of 282 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND 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 - 15 granted patents across 10 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: B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Michael ranks #18,897 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 10 technology areas.

#18,897
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18897 · Foreign Corporation #18,897 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,897/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Megmilk Snow Brand
CPC-FOCUS B31B · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Megmilk Snow Brand Co., Ltd. (±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 Michael’s 34.3 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 9.6 pts (28%) Velocity 6.7 pts (19%) Breadth 11.2 pts (33%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Michael HÖRAUF… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Michael's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (47th 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 Michael?

Each dot is one of Michael’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). Michael’s own 11.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Michael's grants concentrate

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Michael sits between Megmilk Snow Brand Co., Ltd. and MONKEYmedia, Inc..

Michael's three-year grant acceleration

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND 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.

Megmilk Snow Brand

15
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15
Mertek Industries

15
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15
Microbial Discove…

15
Midea America

15
Mobeus Industries

15
Monkeymedia

15
Michael HÖRAUF Ma… ◀

15

What this shows Michael holds 15 patents at rank #18,878, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Michael

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,878 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B31B (Making Containers OF Paper)

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

Michael's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% 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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Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	13.3%
2016	2	13.3%
2018	4	26.7%
2020	1	6.7%
2021	2	13.3%
2023	2	13.3%
2024	1	6.7%
2025partial year	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG patent most?

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 9

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

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B31C - Making Wound Articles, e.g. Wound Tubes, OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

B67C - Cleaning, Filling With Liquids OR Semiliquids, OR Emptying, OF Bottles, Jars, Cans, Casks, Barrels, OR Similar Containers, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Funnels 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG's lead technology class is B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B31B
Ranked #18,897 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Michael HÖRAUF Maschinenfabrik GMBH UND Co. KG against Megmilk Snow Brand Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.3/100 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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