Industrial gearbox design patents: concentration at the top, a long tail behind it
70.1% in five hands. The top 5 assignees combined account for 61 of the 87 records in scope — a 70.1% share concentrated well before the ranking's tenth position. Filings peaked in 2018 at 16 records. With fewer than four complete years available once publication lag is accounted for, no reliable growth rate can be stated for the recent period — treat the tail end of the trend as incomplete rather than declining.
- 1GENESIS ADVANCED TECH INC22
- 2SMART MFG TECH16
- 3HANSEN TRANSMISSIONS INT NV12
- 4KOLEOGLOU ALEX8
- 5DOMINION ENGINEERING WORKS LTD3
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Common questions about industrial gearbox patents
Who holds the most industrial gearbox design patents?
One assignee leads the ranked field with 22 of the 87 records in scope, a count well ahead of the fifth-ranked filer's 3 records. The top 5 assignees combined hold 61 records, or 70.1% of all records in scope, showing the field is concentrated among a small group rather than spread evenly across the 30 ranked companies. Anyone assessing competitive risk should look closely at that leader's specific claim scope rather than treat the field as fragmented.
What technology areas do industrial gearbox patents actually cover?
The large majority sit in IPC subclass F16H, gearing and transmissions, which covers 72.4% of the 87 records in scope. F16C, shafts bearings and couplings, follows at 14.9%, and F03D, wind motors, at 10.3%, showing wind-turbine gearboxes are a meaningful but secondary application. Smaller classes such as control systems and digital data processing sit at 2.3% each, marking areas with far less filing density.
Is the industrial gearbox patent field growing or shrinking?
The filing trend peaked in 2018 at 16 records, but fewer than four complete years remain once the roughly eighteen-month publication lag is accounted for, so no reliable growth rate can be stated for the most recent period. Treat the apparent drop in the last one to two years as incomplete data rather than a genuine decline. A meaningful growth assessment would need to wait for those years to finish publishing.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Industrial Gearbox Design covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.