Where does Pierburg GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pierburg GMBH ranks #4,732 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 Pierburg GMBH hold?

Pierburg GMBH holds 74 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Pierburg GMBH's Innovation Score?

Pierburg GMBH has an Innovation Score of 42.8 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Pierburg GMBH focus on?

Pierburg GMBH's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating) with 39 patents, ranking #41 of 1,836 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

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

Pierburg GMBH's recent grant velocity is -64% 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 Pierburg GMBH's patents?

Pierburg GMBH's patents average 12.0 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 Pierburg 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

Pierburg GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 74 granted patents across 29 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: F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pierburg ranks #4,732 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 74 patents across 29 technology areas.

#4,732
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.8/100): 12.0
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4732 · Foreign Corporation #4,732 · 74 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 74 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,732/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Molecular Devices
CPC-FOCUS F16K · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Molecular Devices, 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 Pierburg’s 42.8 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 14.9 pts (35%) Velocity 1.6 pts (4%) Breadth 19.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bandai Namco… · near

43
Cal-comp BIG Data · near

43
Daishinku · near

43
Enzo Life Sciences · near

43
Pierburg · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pierburg's Innovation Score is 42.8/100 (top 30% 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 Pierburg?

Each dot is one of Pierburg’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). Pierburg’s own 12.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Pierburg's grants concentrate

Pierburg GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 52.7% of grants classified under F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Pierburg sits between Molecular Devices, LLC and Solystic.

Pierburg's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pierburg GMBH moved from 21 to 5 grants (0.24x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Molecular Devices

74
Nanning Fulian Fu…

74
Ncstar

74
Physik Instrument…

74
Powerchip Technol…

74
Remy

74
Seereal

74
Solystic

74
Pierburg ◀

74

What this shows Pierburg holds 74 patents at rank #4,732, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pierburg

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,732 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pierburg, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16K (Valves), Pierburg ranks #41 of 1,836 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. 43 Daishinku Corporation 43 Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. 43 Cal-comp BIG Data, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.0 here).

Heathco LLC 12.0 avg Bwxt mPower, Inc. 12.0 avg Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation 12.0 avg Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. 12.0 avg

Pierburg's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Pierburg GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	13.5%
2016	14	18.9%
2017	11	14.9%
2018	11	14.9%
2019	7	9.5%
2020	11	14.9%
2021	3	4.1%
2023	2	2.7%
2024	3	4.1%
2025partial year	2	2.7%

Which technologies does Pierburg GMBH patent most?

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 39

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 31

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 22

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 17

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 13

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 10

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 8

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 8

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 8

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 7

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 5

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 4

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 4

Top 15 of 29 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

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

Pierburg GMBH's lead technology class is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating), 52.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16K
Ranked #4,732 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pierburg GMBH against Molecular Devices, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.8/100 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

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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