Where does Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG ranks #21,588 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 Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG hold?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 32.5 out of 100 (41st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -70% 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 Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG's patents?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG's patents average 18.5 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

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG focus on?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 9 patents, ranking #214 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany 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 - 13 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Parker ranks #21,588 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 9 technology areas.

#21,588
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.5/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21588 · Foreign Corporation #21,588 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,588/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Paha Designs
CPC-NARROW F16L · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Paha Designs, LLC (±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 Parker’s 32.5 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 9.1 pts (28%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 10.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Parker Hannifin… · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Parker's Innovation Score is 32.5/100 (41st 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 Parker?

Each dot is one of Parker’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). Parker’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Parker's grants concentrate

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Parker sits between Paha Designs, LLC and Pearl Therapeutics, Inc..

Parker's three-year grant acceleration

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Paha Designs

13
Paloma

13
Pangang Group Pan…

13
Park WAY

13
Pathak Holdings

13
PC Matic

13
PCS Ferguson

13
Pearl Therapeutics

13
Parker Hannifin M… ◀

13

What this shows Parker holds 13 patents at rank #21,579, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Parker

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,579 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Parker's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 41st percentile higher than 41% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

View data table

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2016	1	7.7%
2017	2	15.4%
2018	3	23.1%
2019	2	15.4%
2021	2	15.4%
2022	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 9

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 2

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #21,588 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany GMBH & Co. KG against Paha Designs, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.