Where does Pi-Design AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pi-Design AG ranks #3,264 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 Pi-Design AG hold?

Pi-Design AG holds 115 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Pi-Design AG's Innovation Score?

Pi-Design AG has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Pi-Design AG focus on?

Pi-Design AG's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 11 patents, ranking #91 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Pi-Design AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pi-Design AG's recent grant velocity is -6% 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 Pi-Design AG's patents?

Pi-Design AG's patents average 2.6 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.

How is the Pi-Design AG 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

Pi-Design AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 115 granted patents across 8 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pi-design ranks #3,264 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 115 patents across 8 technology areas.

#3,264
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 2.6
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3264 · Foreign Corporation #3,264 · 115 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 115 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,264/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mitsubishi Heavy…
CPC-NARROW A47J · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, 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 Pi-design’s 35.5 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 16.4 pts (46%) Velocity 7.6 pts (21%) Breadth 10.0 pts (28%) Claim depth 1.5 pts (4%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canon Nanotechnologies · near

36
Jiaxing Jackson… · near

36
Pi-Design · this assignee

36
Vectura Delivery… · near

36
Whirlpool Emea S p A · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pi-design's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 Pi-design?

Each dot is one of Pi-design’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). Pi-design’s own 2.6 claims/patent is at or below the 10.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Pi-design's grants concentrate

Pi-Design AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 9.6% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (15 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2021. By volume, Pi-design sits between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. and Tmeic Corporation.

Pi-design's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pi-Design AG moved from 29 to 33 grants (1.14x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #892. See the growth leaderboard.

Mitsubishi Heavy…

115
National Taiwan N…

115
Novomatic

115
Omron Automotive

115
Shofu

115
Simpson Strong-tie

115
Singular Genomics…

115
Tmeic

115
Pi-design ◀

115

What this shows Pi-Design holds 115 patents at rank #3,264, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pi-Design

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,264 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Pi-Design's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pi-Design, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Pi-Design ranks #91 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Vectura Delivery Devices Limited 36 Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. 36 Jiaxing Jackson Travel Products Co., Ltd. 36 Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. 36

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (2.6 here).

Coopper Tire & Rubber Company 2.6 avg Ontel Products Corporation 2.5 avg Ideavillage Products Corp. 2.5 avg Suncast Technologies, LLC 2.6 avg

Pi-design's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% 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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Pi-Design AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	7.8%
2016	6	5.2%
2017	13	11.3%
2018	13	11.3%
2019	12	10.4%
2020	13	11.3%
2021	4	3.5%
2022	9	7.8%
2023	9	7.8%
2024	15	13.0%
2025partial year	12	10.4%

Which technologies does Pi-Design AG patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 11

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 4

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

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 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Pi-Design AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pi-Design AG's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 9.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #3,264 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pi-Design AG against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.5/100 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

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