Where does ABB Research Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ABB Research Ltd. ranks #1,775 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 Research Ltd. hold?

ABB Research Ltd. holds 229 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 94 technology areas.

What is ABB Research Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

ABB Research Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 54.8 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ABB Research Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ABB Research Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Research Ltd.'s patents?

ABB Research Ltd.'s patents average 17.4 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 Research Ltd. 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 Research Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does ABB Research Ltd. focus on?

ABB Research Ltd.'s top technology area is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy) with 44 patents, ranking #139 of 3,143 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 94 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 229 granted patents across 94 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ABB ranks #1,775 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 229 patents across 94 technology areas.

#1,775
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.8/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1775 · Foreign Corporation #1,775 · 229 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 229 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,775/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH British American…
CPC-WIDE H02J · 94 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited (±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 54.8 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 18.8 pts (34%) Velocity 0.6 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Forschungszentrum… · near

55
ABB Research · this assignee

55
DuPont Teijin Films… · near

55
iUNU · near

55
Pregis Innovative… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ABB's Innovation Score is 54.8/100 (top 7% 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 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 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 Research Ltd. received 2 grants versus 227 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 80 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 1. Lead class H02J accounts for 19.2% of the portfolio across 94 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Total Research & Technology Feluy (#1,771) and Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. (#1,779).

ABB's three-year grant acceleration

ABB Research Ltd. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Total Research &…

230
Tianjin University

230
Washington State…

230
Wake Forest Unive…

230
British American…

229
Dai-ichi Seiko

229
Global Graphene G…

229
Hirose Electric

229
ABB Research ◀

229

What this shows ABB holds 229 patents at rank #1,775, 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 #1,775 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…)

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 H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…), ABB ranks #139 of 3,143 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

DuPont Teijin Films U.S. Limited Partnership 55 iUNU, Inc. 55 Pregis Innovative Packaging LLC 55 Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Newracom, Inc. 17.4 avg Triad National Security, LLC 17.4 avg Emerson Process Management Regulator Technologies, Inc. 17.4 avg Snap-on Incorporated 17.4 avg

ABB's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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ABB Research Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	70	30.6%
2016	80	34.9%
2017	42	18.3%
2018	25	10.9%
2019	10	4.4%
2020	1	0.4%
2023	1	0.4%

Which technologies does ABB Research Ltd. patent most?

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 44

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 44

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 40

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 33

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 30

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 29

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 26

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 25

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 21

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 17

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 13

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 12

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 11

Top 15 of 94 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 Research Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ABB Research Ltd.'s lead technology class is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy), 19.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02J
Ranked #1,775 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ABB Research Ltd. against Total Research & Technology Feluy, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.8/100 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

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