Where does PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH ranks #8,095 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 PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH hold?

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH's Innovation Score?

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH has an Innovation Score of 44.4 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH's recent grant velocity is -79% 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 PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH's patents?

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH's patents average 15.9 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 PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH 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

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH

Q: What technology areas does PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH focus on?

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH's top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 11 patents, ranking #416 of 3,455 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 37 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pepperl+fuchs ranks #8,095 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 37 technology areas.

#8,095
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.4/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -79%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8095 · Foreign Corporation #8,095 · 40 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,095/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Opanga Networks
CPC-FOCUS G05B · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -79% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Opanga Networks, Inc. (±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 Pepperl+fuchs’s 44.4 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 12.8 pts (29%) Velocity 0.5 pts (1%) Breadth 21.5 pts (49%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dongjin Semichem · near

44
Nippon Paint… · near

44
PEPPERL+FUCHS · this assignee

44
Trumpf Lasersystems… · near

44
Universiti Brunei… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pepperl+fuchs's Innovation Score is 44.4/100 (top 26% 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 Pepperl+fuchs?

Each dot is one of Pepperl+fuchs’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). Pepperl+fuchs’s own 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pepperl+fuchs's grants concentrate

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 27.5% of grants classified under G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Pepperl+fuchs sits between Opanga Networks, Inc. and Purecircle USA Inc..

Pepperl+fuchs's three-year grant acceleration

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Opanga Networks

40
Openlight Photoni…

40
Orthalign

40
Pavestone

40
Pontificia Univer…

40
Powertech Industr…

40
PTT Global Chemic…

40
Purecircle USA

40
Pepperl+Fuchs ◀

40

What this shows PEPPERL+FUCHS holds 40 patents at rank #8,093, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near PEPPERL+FUCHS

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,093 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in PEPPERL+FUCHS's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for PEPPERL+FUCHS, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General), PEPPERL+FUCHS ranks #416 of 3,455 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Dongjin Semichem Co., Ltd. 44 Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. 44 Universiti Brunei Darussalam 44 Trumpf Lasersystems for Semiconductor Manufacturing GmbH 44

Pepperl+fuchs's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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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.

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PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	10.0%
2016	5	12.5%
2017	14	35.0%
2018	3	7.5%
2019	7	17.5%
2020	4	10.0%
2021	2	5.0%
2022	1	2.5%

Which technologies does PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 11

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 8

H03K - Pulse Technique 7

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 4

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 3

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 2

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

Top 15 of 37 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

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH's lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 27.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #8,095 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH against Opanga Networks, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.4/100 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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