Concrete Pumping Equipment Patents: Who Leads, Where the Gaps Are 2026
- Concentration at the top. The top 5 assignees alone hold 50.0% of all 176 records in scope, and the top 10 hold 69.9% — filing here is dominated by a small set of players.
- Growth has flattened, not slowed. Filings held flat at 0% from 2021 (7) to 2024 (7), the last year publication lag lets us read reliably; 2025-2026 figures are still filling in.
- Formwork and pump mechanics overlap heavily. F04B (positive-displacement pumps, 31.8%) and E04G (scaffolding & formwork, 31.3%) run almost neck-and-neck, showing pumping and placement claims are being filed together.
Filing growth compares 2021 (7 records) with 2024 (7) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field. Top-5 share is the combined record count of the five largest assignees divided by all 176 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
What the concrete pumping equipment patent record actually shows
Concrete pumping equipment patents in this dataset span 176 published records filed between 2015 and mid-2026, covering pump mechanics, placing booms, delivery-line control and the mix-handling problems that surround them. The search deliberately pairs pump and boom hardware terms with operational failure modes — pipeline blockage, boom vibration damping, outrigger stability, delivery rate — so the corpus centres on equipment that has to keep working under load, not just equipment that exists on paper.
Filing peaked in 2017 at 22 records and has not returned to that level since; the 2021-2024 window, the last stretch we can read without lag distortion, held flat at 7 filings a year. That plateau, combined with concentration among a handful of leaders, points to a field where the core mechanical claims were staked out early and later filers are working the margins.
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Filing trend and technology composition
Two views of the same 176 records: how filing activity has moved year over year, and which IPC subclasses carry the claims.
Filing trend, 2017-2026
Filings ran at a peak of 22 in 2017, then settled into a lower band; the 2021-2024 span was flat at 7 filings per year with 0% net change, and 2025-2026 are undercounted because publication trails filing by roughly 18 months.
Technology composition by IPC subclass
F04B (positive-displacement pumps) and E04G (scaffolding & formwork) each cover close to a third of the 176 records, with B28B (shaping clay & cement products) and B29C (shaping of plastics) showing meaningful overlap into additive-manufacturing-adjacent claims — B33Y appears in 10.8% of records, evidence that 3D-printing-style concrete placement is now a recognised sub-branch rather than a novelty.
Shares are the percentage of the 176 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
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Computer-aided method and device for optimized control of the delivery rate of a concrete pump or the like
Filed by PERI SE, this record describes controlling a concrete pump's delivery rate as a function of curing-relevant material and environmental parameters, including determining a permissible climbing speed for filling a formwork arrangement based on those conditions. It ties pump output directly to formwork-fill physics rather than treating pump control and placement as separate problems.Abstract text lightly trimmed for length; formatting from the original filing preserved.
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US7641461B2 | Robotic systems for automated construction | 207 |
| 2 | US20180071949A1 | Method of reinforced cementitious constrauction by high speed extrusion printing and apparatus for using same | 191 |
| 3 | US4298288A | Mobile concreting apparatus and method | 166 |
| 4 | US20050196484A1 | Robotic systems for automated construction | 147 |
| 5 | WO2005070657A1 | Automated construction including robotic systems | 130 |
| 6 | US20210107177A1 | Apparatus For Reinforced Cementitious Construction By High Speed 3D Printing | 84 |
| 7 | US20050194401A1 | Automated plumbing, wiring, and reinforcement | 71 |
| 8 | US20050196482A1 | Mixer-extruder assembly | 51 |
| 9 | US7452196B2 | Automated plumbing, wiring, and reinforcement | 48 |
| 10 | US20150276702A1 | Method and apparatus for analyzing anomalies in concrete structures | 47 |
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Three findings that change how a freedom-to-operate or whitespace search should be scoped in this field.
A small set of filers hold half the field
The top 5 assignees combined account for 50.0% of all 176 records in scope, and the top 10 reach 69.9%. That leaves a long tail of single- or double-filing entrants competing for the remaining space, which is exactly where a new entrant is likeliest to find room to file without colliding with an incumbent's core claims.
Growth has plateaued, not collapsed
Filings sat at 7 in both 2021 and 2024, a 0% net change across the three-year span. Because publication lags filing by around 18 months, 2025 and 2026 numbers are still filling in and should not be read as a decline; the honest read is a mature filing rate rather than a shrinking one.
Pump mechanics and formwork claims are converging
F04B (positive-displacement pumps) and E04G (scaffolding & formwork) sit almost level at 31.8% and 31.3% of records respectively, meaning a large share of filings claim across both domains at once. Anyone drafting a pure pump-mechanism claim should check formwork-side prior art too, and vice versa.
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Who is filing, and where the field is still open
The ranked leaders cover 50 companies drawn from the 176 records in scope; below them sits a long tail of entrants filing once or twice.
A clear top filer, well ahead of the field
The leading assignee holds 25 of the 176 records in scope, well clear of the fifth-place filer at 8 and the tenth-place filer at 6. That gap suggests the leader staked out foundational claims early rather than joining an already-crowded space.
Co-filing is rare and concentrated among named inventors
Only 4 co-assignee pairs appear across the dataset. The strongest pair shares 8 records together, and a second pair shares 7 — both look like individual-inventor collaborations rather than corporate joint ventures, which is unusual for equipment-heavy mechanical fields.
Recent-year filing has gone quiet across the board
Every assignee tracked for recent-year momentum shows 0 filings in the latest year, including one with a -100% year-on-year change. Given the ~18-month publication lag, this reads as a reporting gap rather than a stop in R&D, but it means the newest competitive moves are not yet visible in the public record.
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| PRIDDY FRANCIS WAYNE | 0 | — |
| Armatron Systems LLC | 0 | — |
| University of Southern California | 0 | — |
| ENGLAND MELVIN GERRARD | 0 | — |
| Fastbrick IP Pty Ltd | 0 | -100% |
| CHESSMAN PAUL FREDERICK | 0 | — |
| Contour Crafting Corp | 0 | — |
| PERI SE | 0 | — |
Where to take this analysis
The dataset points to a mature core and a thin edge of newer sub-branches. Two directions follow from that.
Run a freedom-to-operate check on formwork-pump overlap claims
Because F04B and E04G claims overlap in close to a third of records each, a new pump-control or boom filing should be checked against both classes, not just the obvious one.
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S-tube valve wear geometry, boom vibration damping and mix pumpability prediction show low filing density relative to the core claims, which is where a first-mover claim is more likely to stick.
Map white space in EurekaCommon questions about concrete pumping equipment patents
One assignee leads the 176-record dataset with 25 filings, well ahead of the fifth-place filer at 8 and the tenth-place filer at 6. The top 5 assignees combined hold 50.0% of all records, and the top 10 hold 69.9%, so filing activity is concentrated among a small group rather than spread evenly across the 50 companies in the ranked list. Anyone assessing competitive risk should treat that leader's portfolio as the first thing to search, not the last.
Filing peaked in 2017 at 22 records and has since settled to a lower, flatter rate. Over the last window that can be read reliably without publication-lag distortion, 2021 to 2024, filings held exactly flat at 7 per year, a 0% change. Figures for 2025 and 2026 look lower still, but that is expected because publication trails filing by roughly 18 months, so those years understate true activity rather than showing a real decline.
The largest IPC subclasses are F04B, positive-displacement pumps, covering 31.8% of the 176 records, and E04G, scaffolding and formwork, covering 31.3%. B28B (shaping clay and cement products), E04B (building structures), B29C (shaping of plastics) and B28C (mortar and concrete mixing) all appear in double-digit shares, and B33Y, additive manufacturing, appears in 10.8% of records, showing a real overlap between concrete pumping and 3D-printed construction. Because a single record can carry multiple IPC codes, these shares add up to more than 100%, which is expected.
Relative to the dense core of pump-mechanism and formwork claims, sub-areas like S-tube valve wear geometry, boom vibration damping control, outrigger stability sensing, mix pumpability prediction and delivery-line blockage detection show lighter filing density. These are operational-reliability problems named directly in the search criteria rather than core mechanical structures, which makes them plausible targets for a first claim that does not collide with the incumbent leader's portfolio. A proper freedom-to-operate search is still needed before drafting in any of these areas.
The United States leads with 43 filings in this dataset, followed by the European Patent Office at 24, Australia and the WIPO PCT route each at 16, India at 12, and China at 8. That spread suggests applicants are pursuing multi-jurisdiction protection through PCT alongside direct US and European filings, rather than concentrating solely on any single national market.
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