Where does Pfannenberg GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pfannenberg GMBH ranks #20,233 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 Pfannenberg GMBH hold?

Pfannenberg GMBH holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Pfannenberg GMBH's Innovation Score?

Pfannenberg GMBH has an Innovation Score of 36.8 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pfannenberg GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pfannenberg GMBH's recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Pfannenberg GMBH's patents?

Pfannenberg GMBH's patents average 10.5 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.

How is the Pfannenberg 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

Pfannenberg GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Pfannenberg GMBH focus on?

Pfannenberg GMBH's top technology area is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components) with 7 patents, ranking #772 of 3,545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pfannenberg ranks #20,233 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 10 technology areas.

#20,233
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.8/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20233 · Foreign Corporation #20,233 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,233/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Perfect Mobile
CPC-FOCUS H05K · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Perfect Mobile Corp. (±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 Pfannenberg’s 36.8 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 9.4 pts (25%) Velocity 10.0 pts (27%) Breadth 11.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pfannenberg · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pfannenberg's Innovation Score is 36.8/100 (top 45% 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 Pfannenberg?

Each dot is one of Pfannenberg’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). Pfannenberg’s own 10.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Pfannenberg's grants concentrate

Pfannenberg GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Pfannenberg sits between Perfect Mobile Corp. and Pico & Tera Co., Ltd..

Pfannenberg's three-year grant acceleration

Pfannenberg GMBH shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Perfect Mobile

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14
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14
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14
Pico & Tera

14
Pfannenberg ◀

14

What this shows Pfannenberg holds 14 patents at rank #20,225, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pfannenberg

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,225 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05K (Printed Circuits)

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

Pfannenberg's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Pfannenberg GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	28.6%
2016	2	14.3%
2017	1	7.1%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	1	7.1%
2021	1	7.1%
2023	1	7.1%
2024	2	14.3%

Which technologies does Pfannenberg GMBH patent most?

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 7

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 6

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

B01D - Separation 4

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 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

Pfannenberg GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pfannenberg GMBH's lead technology class is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05K
Ranked #20,233 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pfannenberg GMBH against Perfect Mobile Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.8/100 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

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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

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