Where does ABB AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ABB AG ranks #3,902 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 ABB AG hold?

ABB AG holds 92 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is ABB AG's Innovation Score?

ABB AG has an Innovation Score of 53.9 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ABB AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ABB AG's recent grant velocity is -80% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for ABB AG's patents?

ABB AG's patents average 16.3 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.

How is the ABB AG 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

ABB AG

Q: What technology areas does ABB AG focus on?

ABB AG's top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 25 patents, ranking #174 of 3,455 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 92 granted patents across 65 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ABB ranks #3,902 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 92 patents across 65 technology areas.

#3,902
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.9/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3902 · Foreign Corporation #3,902 · 92 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 92 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,902/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Afiniti
CPC-WIDE G05B · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Afiniti, Ltd. (±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 ABB’s 53.9 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 15.7 pts (29%) Velocity 3.5 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cfph · near

54
John Mezzalingua… · near

54
ABB · this assignee

54
Asensus Surgical US · near

54
Behr Process · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ABB's Innovation Score is 53.9/100 (top 8% 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 ABB?

Each dot is one of ABB’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). ABB’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How ABB's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ABB AG received 15 grants versus 76 in 2015–2019 (-80% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 22 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 3. Lead class G05B accounts for 27.2% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (#3,898) and BOE Optical Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (#3,906).

ABB's three-year grant acceleration

ABB AG shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Sloan Kettering I…

93
Sonion Nederland…

93
Youngo

93
ZF Active Safety…

93
Aliphcom

92
Anheuser-busch In…

92
Afiniti

92
BOE Optical Scien…

92
ABB ◀

92

What this shows ABB holds 92 patents at rank #3,902, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ABB

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,902 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ABB, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General), ABB ranks #174 of 3,455 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Behr Process Corporation 54 Asensus Surgical US, Inc. 54 John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC 54 Cfph, LLC 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

Bausch & Lomb Incorporated 16.3 avg Neuravi Limited 16.3 avg Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology (LIST) 16.3 avg Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, Inc. 16.3 avg

ABB's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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.

View data table

ABB AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	21.7%
2016	22	23.9%
2017	13	14.1%
2018	7	7.6%
2019	14	15.2%
2020	5	5.4%
2022	3	3.3%
2023	3	3.3%
2024	4	4.3%
2025partial year	1	1.1%

Which technologies does ABB AG patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 25

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 14

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 9

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

H01C - Resistors 4

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 4

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 4

Top 15 of 65 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

ABB AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ABB AG's lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 27.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #3,902 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ABB AG against Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.9/100 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.

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.