Where does Actuant Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Actuant Corporation ranks #9,951 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 Actuant Corporation hold?

Actuant Corporation holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Actuant Corporation's Innovation Score?

Actuant Corporation has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Actuant Corporation focus on?

Actuant Corporation's top technology area is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification) with 7 patents, ranking #1,744 of 9,657 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Is Actuant Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Actuant Corporation's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Actuant Corporation's patents?

Actuant Corporation's patents average 18.0 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 Actuant Corporation 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 US Corporation

Actuant Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 31 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Actuant ranks #9,951 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 31 technology areas.

#9,951
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9951 · US Corporation #9,951 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #9,951/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aalborg Universitet
CPC-FOCUS Y10T · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aalborg Universitet (±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 Actuant’s 42.5 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 12.0 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 19.7 pts (46%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Occlutech · near

42
Actuant · this assignee

42
Bitwave PTE · near

42
Centre Leon Berard · near

42
Crocs · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Actuant's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Actuant?

Each dot is one of Actuant’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). Actuant’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Actuant's grants concentrate

Actuant Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 22.6% of grants classified under Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (8 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2016. By volume, Actuant sits between Anchorfree Inc. and Advantest Test Solutions, Inc..

Anchorfree

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Ardyne Holdings

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Aalborg Universit…

31
Acetylon Pharmace…

31
Adams Mfg

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Adshir

31
Advanced Bifurcat…

31
Advantest Test So…

31
Actuant ◀

31

What this shows Actuant holds 31 patents at rank #9,960, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Actuant

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,960 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Actuant, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), Actuant ranks #1,744 of 9,657 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Bitwave PTE Ltd 42 Centre Leon Berard 42 Crocs, Inc. 42 Occlutech GmbH 42

Actuant's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Actuant Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	25.8%
2016	4	12.9%
2017	7	22.6%
2018	6	19.4%
2019	6	19.4%

Which technologies does Actuant Corporation patent most?

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

D07B - Ropes OR Cables IN General 4

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

B23B - TURNING; Boring 3

F16H - Gearing 3

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 3

D04C - Braiding OR Manufacture OF Lace, Including Bobbin-net OR Carbonised LACE; Braiding MACHINES; BRAID; Lace 2

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 2

E01F - Additional Work, Such AS Equipping Roads OR THE Construction OF Platforms, Helicopter Landing Stages, Signs, Snow Fences, OR THE Like 2

E04G - SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; Building Implements OR Aids, OR Their USE; Handling Building Materials ON THE SITE; Repairing, Breaking-up OR Other Work ON Existing Buildings 2

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 2

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

Top 15 of 31 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Actuant Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Actuant Corporation's lead technology class is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), 22.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y10T
Ranked #9,951 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Actuant Corporation against Anchorfree Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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.