Where does Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH ranks #11,488 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 Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH hold?

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH's Innovation Score?

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH focus on?

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH's top technology area is F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings) with 21 patents, ranking #35 of 753 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH's recent grant velocity is +233% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH's patents?

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH's patents average 15.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH

Q: How is the Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany 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 PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 25 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: F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Trelleborg ranks #11,488 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 25 technology areas.

#11,488
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: +233%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11488 · Foreign Corporation #11,488 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,488/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH TheraPearl
CPC-FOCUS F16J · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +233% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: TheraPearl, 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 Trelleborg’s 50.0 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 11.5 pts (23%) Velocity 11.7 pts (23%) Breadth 17.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Noritz · near

50
OrVance · near

50
The Hong Kong… · near

50
Trelleborg Sealing… · this assignee

50
I Peace · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trelleborg's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% 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 Trelleborg?

Each dot is one of Trelleborg’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). Trelleborg’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Trelleborg's grants concentrate

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Trelleborg sits between TheraPearl, LLC and Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd..

Trelleborg's three-year grant acceleration

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Therapearl

27
Thermo Electron L…

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Tokai Optical

27
Top Knobs USA

27
Tung Hing Plastic…

27
Two Six Labs

27
UBE Machinery

27
Umicore Shokubai…

27
Trelleborg Sealin… ◀

27

What this shows Trelleborg holds 27 patents at rank #11,489, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Trelleborg

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,489 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16J (Pistons)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Trelleborg, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16J (Pistons), Trelleborg ranks #35 of 753 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited 50 OrVance, LLC 50 Noritz Corporation 50 I Peace, Inc. 50

Trelleborg's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.7%
2018	3	11.1%
2019	2	7.4%
2020	2	7.4%
2021	4	14.8%
2022	4	14.8%
2023	6	22.2%
2024	4	14.8%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH patent most?

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 21

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 6

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

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 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 2

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 1

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 1

Top 15 of 25 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

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH's lead technology class is F16J (Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16J
Ranked #11,488 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH against TheraPearl, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 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.

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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