Where does AB Volvo Penta rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AB Volvo Penta ranks #19,400 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does AB Volvo Penta hold?

AB Volvo Penta holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is AB Volvo Penta's Innovation Score?

AB Volvo Penta has an Innovation Score of 32.5 out of 100 (top 58% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does AB Volvo Penta focus on?

AB Volvo Penta's top technology area is B63H (MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is AB Volvo Penta's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AB Volvo Penta's recent grant velocity is +267% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for AB Volvo Penta's patents?

AB Volvo Penta's patents average 15.8 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.

How is the AB Volvo Penta 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

AB Volvo Penta

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: B63H (MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, AB ranks #19,400 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 12 technology areas.

#19,400
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 58%
by Innovation Score (32.5/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +267%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19400 · Foreign Corporation #19,400 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,400/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH A Kayser Automotive…
CPC-FOCUS B63H · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +267% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: A. Kayser Automotive Systems Gmbh (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AB Volvo Penta · this assignee

33
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows AB Volvo Penta stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #19,400 of 50,000; Innovation Score 32.5/100 sits in the top 58% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is A. Kayser Automotive Systems Gmbh (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

AB Volvo Penta has been granted 14 US utility patents between 2017 and 2023, placing AB Volvo Penta at #19,400 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 12 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 15.8 claims per patent with primary concentration in B63H (MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING). As a Foreign Corporation, AB Volvo Penta is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, AB sits between A. Kayser Automotive Systems Gmbh (14 patents, rank #19,395) and Advaced Vision Technology (a.v.t.) Ltd. (14 patents, rank #19,403) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 32.5/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 11 grants, compared with 3 in the 2015–2019 window, a +267% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. AB Volvo Penta's 15.8 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 12 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

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What this shows AB holds 14 patents at rank #19,399, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AB

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,399 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering)

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

AB's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 Top 58% higher than 42% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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AB Volvo Penta patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	14.3%
2018	1	7.1%
2020	5	35.7%
2021	4	28.6%
2023	2	14.3%

Which technologies does AB Volvo Penta patent most?

B63H - MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING 13

B63B - SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 4

F02B - INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL 3

F16H - GEARING 3

F01P - COOLING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; COOLING OF INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES 2

Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS 2

F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS 1

F21S - NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS 1

F21V - FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

F21Y - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED 1

F16D - COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; CLUTCHES; BRAKES 1

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#19,400

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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.

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

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

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