Where does Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. ranks #5,421 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 Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. hold?

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. holds 63 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.4 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. focus on?

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is E03F (SEWERS; Cesspools) with 25 patents, ranking #2 of 178 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +209% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s patents average 14.2 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 Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. 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

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 63 granted patents across 20 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: E03F (SEWERS; Cesspools).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Advanced ranks #5,421 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 63 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,421
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +209%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5421 · US Corporation #5,421 · 63 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 63 grants
UPPER-Q #5,421/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AbbVie Biotechnology
CPC-FOCUS E03F · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +209% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AbbVie Biotechnology 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 Advanced’s 47.4 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 14.4 pts (30%) Velocity 8.8 pts (19%) Breadth 15.8 pts (33%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advanced Drainage… · this assignee

47
Andrew Wireless… · near

47
Cirrus Logic… · near

47
Kellogg · near

47
Midrex · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Advanced's Innovation Score is 47.4/100 (top 19% 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 Advanced?

Each dot is one of Advanced’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). Advanced’s own 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Advanced's grants concentrate

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 39.7% of grants classified under E03F (SEWERS; Cesspools). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Advanced sits between Asapp, Inc. and BGI Shenzhen.

Advanced's three-year grant acceleration

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. shows 21 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Asapp

63
Asia Optical Inte…

63
Atlantic Inertial…

63
Abbvie Biotechnol…

63
Affectiva

63
Agfa-gevaert

63
Ansell

63
BGI Shenzhen

63
Advanced Drainage… ◀

63

What this shows Advanced holds 63 patents at rank #5,424, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Advanced

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,424 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E03F (Sewers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Advanced, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E03F (Sewers), Advanced ranks #2 of 178 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Kellogg Company 47 Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH 47 Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd. 47 Midrex Technologies, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. 14.2 avg Saipem S.A. 14.2 avg Syngenta Limited 14.2 avg Gree Green Refrigeration Technology Center Co., Ltd. of Zhuhai 14.2 avg

Advanced's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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.

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Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.6%
2017	2	3.2%
2018	5	7.9%
2019	3	4.8%
2020	5	7.9%
2021	8	12.7%
2022	3	4.8%
2023	6	9.5%
2024	12	19.0%
2025partial year	18	28.6%

Which technologies does Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. patent most?

E03F - SEWERS; Cesspools 25

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 18

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 13

B01D - Separation 11

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 11

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 9

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 9

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 3

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 2

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

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is E03F (SEWERS; Cesspools), 39.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E03F
Ranked #5,421 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. against Asapp, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.4/100 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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