Where does Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc. ranks #8,526 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 Flow Engineering, Inc. hold?

Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc. holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 31.3 out of 100 (37th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +211% 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 Flow Engineering, Inc.'s patents?

Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc.'s patents average 4.5 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 Flow Engineering, 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 Flow Engineering, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc. focus on?

Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc.'s top technology area is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof) with 17 patents, ranking #87 of 574 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Advanced ranks #8,526 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 9 technology areas.

#8,526
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 37th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.3/100): 4.5
avg claims per patent: +211%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8526 · US Corporation #8,526 · 37 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,526/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Actifio
CPC-NARROW F02M · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +211% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Actifio, Inc. (±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 31.3 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 12.6 pts (40%) Velocity 5.4 pts (17%) Breadth 10.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 2.7 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Petsmart Home Office · near

31
Sync-think · near

31
Xiamen Runner… · near

31
Advanced Flow… · this assignee

31
Smith & Fong · near

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Advanced's Innovation Score is 31.3/100 (37th percentile 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 4.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.2 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 Flow Engineering, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 45.9% of grants classified under F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Advanced sits between Aulton NEW Energy Automotive Technology Group and American Radionic Company, Inc..

Advanced's three-year grant acceleration

Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc. shows 13 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.

Aulton NEW Energy…

37
Autotech Engineer…

37
Actifio

37
Adrian Steel

37
Agamatrix

37
Airius IP Holdings

37
Amazentis

37
American Radionic

37
Advanced Flow Eng… ◀

37

What this shows Advanced holds 37 patents at rank #8,531, 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 #8,531 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…)

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 F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…), Advanced ranks #87 of 574 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (31 here).

Smith & Fong Co. 31 Xiamen Runner Industrial Corporation 31 Petsmart Home Office, Inc. 31 Sync-think, Inc. 31

Advanced's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 37th percentile higher than 37% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	16.2%
2017	1	2.7%
2018	1	2.7%
2019	1	2.7%
2020	7	18.9%
2021	8	21.6%
2022	6	16.2%
2023	5	13.5%
2024	2	5.4%

Which technologies does Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc. patent most?

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 17

B01D - Separation 14

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 11

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 8

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 3

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 3

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 3

B60D - Vehicle Connections 1

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 1

Top 9 of 9 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

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

Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc.'s lead technology class is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof), 45.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02M
Ranked #8,526 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc. against Aulton NEW Energy Automotive Technology Group, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.3/100 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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