Where does ABB Schweiz AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ABB Schweiz AG ranks #159 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 Schweiz AG hold?

ABB Schweiz AG holds 2,472 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 260 technology areas.

What is ABB Schweiz AG's Innovation Score?

ABB Schweiz AG has an Innovation Score of 67.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

ABB Schweiz AG's recent grant velocity is +46% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

ABB Schweiz AG'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 ABB Schweiz 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 Schweiz AG

Q: What technology areas does ABB Schweiz AG focus on?

ABB Schweiz 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 399 patents. Grants appear in 260 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,472 granted patents across 260 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 #159 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,472 patents across 260 technology areas.

#159
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.0/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R159 · Foreign Corporation #159 · 2,472 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #159/49,997
NEAR-PEER Futurewei
CPC-BROAD G05B · 260 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (±17 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
GN Hearing A/S · near

67
Nichia · near

67
ABB Schweiz · this assignee

67
DePuy Synthes Products · near

67
Nutrition &… · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ABB's Innovation Score is 67.0/100 (top 1% 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.

How ABB's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ABB Schweiz AG received 1,361 grants versus 933 in 2015–2019 (+46% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 351 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class G05B accounts for 16.1% of the portfolio across 260 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (#155) and eBay Inc. (#163).

ABB's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ABB Schweiz AG moved from 934 to 778 grants (0.83x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,706. See the growth leaderboard.

Advanced Micro De…

2,513
T-mobile USA

2,513
Raytheon

2,501
The Board of Rege…

2,495
ABB Schweiz ◀

2,472
Futurewei

2,455
Chengdu BOE Optoe…

2,399
Lenovo (Singapore…

2,375
ebay

2,351

What this shows ABB holds 2,472 patents at rank #159, 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 #159 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. 67 Nichia Corporation 67 GN Hearing A/S 67 Nutrition & Biosciences USA 4, Inc. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Abbott Laboratories 15.8 avg THE Hillman Group, Inc. 15.8 avg MOR Research Applications Ltd. 15.8 avg Hytto PTE. Ltd. 15.8 avg

ABB's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Schweiz AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	0.1%
2016	58	2.3%
2017	255	10.3%
2018	266	10.8%
2019	351	14.2%
2020	328	13.3%
2021	255	10.3%
2022	262	10.6%
2023	254	10.3%
2024	262	10.6%
2025partial year	178	7.2%

Which technologies does ABB Schweiz AG patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 399

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 349

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 323

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 277

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 225

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 214

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 203

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 192

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 185

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 179

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 176

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 124

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 116

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 115

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 115

Top 15 of 260 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#159

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

67.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

ABB Schweiz 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), 16.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #159 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ABB Schweiz AG against Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.0/100 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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