KHS GmbH
🏢 View company profile →552Patents
545Active
552Granted
63Portfolio score
Filing activity: Jan 12, 1995 → Jun 28, 2022 · 131 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8511314B2 | Method of securing a patient onto an operating table when the patient is in the Trendelenburg position and apparatus therefor including a kit | Human Necessities | 55 | Active |
| US9132664B2 | Device and method for adding information on the outer surface of articles, such as containers in a container filling plant | Performing Operations; Transporting | 19 | Active |
| US9221275B2 | Method of printing a pictorial image onto the circumferential outer surface of beverage bottles and filling beverage bottles in a bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material in rotary filling machinery and apparatus therefor | Performing Operations; Transporting | 19 | Active |
| US9108803B2 | Method for handling containers and container handling machine | Performing Operations; Transporting | 18 | Active |
| USD620810S1 | Stand-up pouch with air-filled hand-hold | General | 17 | Expired |
| US8833824B2 | Bottle clamp with locking mechanism | Performing Operations; Transporting | 15 | Active |
| US8256854B2 | Method and apparatus for the circumferential printing onto individual bottles in a run of bottles where the individual bottles in the run have at least one varying dimension due to manufacturing tolerances, the method and apparatus providing more consistent artwork on individual containers in the run of containers | Performing Operations; Transporting | 13 | Active |
| US10144225B2 | Detection segment as well as device and method for printing containers | Performing Operations; Transporting | 13 | Active |
| US7866123B2 | Multilevel container filling machine such as a multilevel beverage bottle filling machine | Performing Operations; Transporting | 13 | Active |
| US8894114B2 | PET bottle gripping device | Performing Operations; Transporting | 13 | Active |
| US9090090B2 | Printing apparatus for printing bottles or similar containers | Performing Operations; Transporting | 12 | Active |
| US8667895B2 | Device for applying one multiple-pass print each to packaging containers | Performing Operations; Transporting | 12 | Active |
| US8602471B2 | Container clamp or clip | Performing Operations; Transporting | 12 | Active |
| US9272847B2 | Transport system for packages and apparatus for handling packages using such a transport system | Performing Operations; Transporting | 12 | Active |
| US8418608B2 | Printing system for printing bottles or similar containers and printing device or machine having such a printing system | Performing Operations; Transporting | 11 | Active |
| US8459315B2 | Filling system for filling beverage bottles in a beverage bottling plant | Performing Operations; Transporting | 11 | Active |
| US6353199B1 | Apparatus for electric discharge machining | Performing Operations; Transporting | 11 | Expired |
| US8151543B2 | Bag clamp puckering system | Performing Operations; Transporting | 10 | Active |
| US6538227B1 | Electric discharge machine having a balance device for balancing gravitational force acting on a vertically moveable quill | Performing Operations; Transporting | 10 | Expired |
| US10252545B2 | Apparatus and method for printing on containers | Performing Operations; Transporting | 10 | Active |
| US8256474B2 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage, having a flow meter integrated into the filling element and located in the flow path for filling bottles with a liquid beverage and a filling machine having such a filling element | Performing Operations; Transporting | 10 | Active |
| US8726946B2 | Method for filling bottles or similar containers with an oxygen sensitive effervescent liquid beverage filling material under counterpressure and filling machine for the performance of this method | Performing Operations; Transporting | 10 | Active |
| US8240459B2 | Accelerator feed arrangement configured to accelerate blow-molded pet beverage bottles from a linear conveyor to a rotary pet bottle sterilizing machine and minimize misalignment and jamming of blow-molded pet beverage bottles during transport from a linear conveyor to a rotary pet bottle sterilizing machine | Performing Operations; Transporting | 9 | Active |
| US8505594B2 | Beverage bottling plant having a filling machine with multiple beverage filling elements, a filling machine with multiple beverage filling elements, a filling element and related method | Performing Operations; Transporting | 9 | Active |
| US10286684B2 | Printing device and method for printing containers | Performing Operations; Transporting | 9 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.