Where does Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH ranks #4,020 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 Pump Technology GMBH hold?

Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH holds 90 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH's Innovation Score?

Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH has an Innovation Score of 44.7 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH's recent grant velocity is +2% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH's patents?

Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH's patents average 10.2 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 Pump Technology 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 Pump Technology GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH focus on?

Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH's top technology area is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps) with 37 patents, ranking #17 of 587 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 90 granted patents across 26 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: F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pierburg ranks #4,020 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 90 patents across 26 technology areas.

#4,020
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.7/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: +2%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4020 · Foreign Corporation #4,020 · 90 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 90 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,020/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Musco
CPC-FOCUS F04C · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +2% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Musco Corporation (±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 44.7 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 15.6 pts (35%) Velocity 4.9 pts (11%) Breadth 18.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AYR · near

45
Humanetics · near

45
Pierburg Pump… · this assignee

45
SKYPE · near

45
Tokyo Seimitsu · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pierburg's Innovation Score is 44.7/100 (top 25% 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 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 14.2 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 Pump Technology GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 41.1% of grants classified under F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (17 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2024. By volume, Pierburg sits between Musco Corporation and SureFire, LLC.

Pierburg's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH moved from 31 to 23 grants (0.74x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Musco

90
Nanjing Tech Univ…

90
NKT Photonics A/S

90
Nuro

90
Quanta Associates

90
Santen Pharmaceut…

90
Soletanche Freyss…

90
Surefire

90
Pierburg Pump Tec… ◀

90

What this shows Pierburg holds 90 patents at rank #4,020, 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 #4,020 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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 F04C (Rotary-piston), Pierburg ranks #17 of 587 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Humanetics Corporation 45 AYR Ltd. 45 SKYPE 45 Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.2 here).

Bridgestone Bandag, LLC 10.2 avg Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd. 10.2 avg Building Materials Investment Corporation 10.2 avg Dowa Metaltech Co., Ltd. 10.2 avg

Pierburg's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% 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 Pump Technology GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	10.0%
2016	6	6.7%
2017	11	12.2%
2018	9	10.0%
2019	9	10.0%
2020	5	5.6%
2021	17	18.9%
2022	11	12.2%
2023	8	8.9%
2024	4	4.4%
2025partial year	1	1.1%

Which technologies does Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 37

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 37

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 20

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 14

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 10

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 8

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 6

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 6

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 5

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 5

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 5

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 4

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 3

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 3

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 2

Top 15 of 26 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 Pump Technology GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH's lead technology class is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps), 41.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #4,020 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH against Musco Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.7/100 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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