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Tchibo GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tchibo ranks #30,329 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 5 technology areas.

#30,329
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.8/100)
11.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30329 · Foreign Corporation #30,329 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
  • MID-PACK #30,329/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tasmit
  • CPC-NARROW A47J · 5 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 42.8/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tasmit, 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 Tchibo’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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Tchibo

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Tchibo'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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Tchibo?

Each dot is one of Tchibo’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). Tchibo’s own 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 11.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Tchibo vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 8.98.999.1 05101520 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Tasmit, Inc. - 9, 9.56TasmitTate Technology, LLC - 9, 11.78Tate TechnologyTateho Chemical Industries Co., Ltd - 9, 8.78Tateho Chemical I…TC Heartland LLC - 9, 3.11TC HeartlandTD Tools, Inc. - 9, 14.44TD ToolsTDK-Lambda UK Limited - 9, 16.67Tdk-lambda UKTDW Gesellschaft für Verteidigungstechnische Wirksysteme mbH - 9, 16.89TDW Gesellschaft…TE Connectivity Japan G.K. - 9, 12.78TE Connectivity J…Tchibo GMBH - 9, 11.56Tchibo
Tchibo vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Tchibo's grants concentrate

Tchibo GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Tchibo sits between Tasmit, Inc. and TE Connectivity Japan G.K..

Tchibo's three-year grant acceleration

Tchibo GMBH shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Who files at Tchibo's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Tchibo holds 9 patents at rank #30,293, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Tchibo

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,293 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Tchibo'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

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Tchibo GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2021 1 11.1%
2022 3 33.3%
2023 3 33.3%
2024 1 11.1%
2025partial year 1 11.1%

Which technologies does Tchibo GMBH patent most?

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

  • Tchibo GMBH's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
  • Ranked #30,329 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Tchibo GMBH against Tasmit, Inc., 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.