Where does Aetna Group S.P.A rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aetna Group S.P.A ranks #14,433 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 Aetna Group S.P.A hold?

Aetna Group S.P.A holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Aetna Group S.P.A's Innovation Score?

Aetna Group S.P.A has an Innovation Score of 51.3 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Aetna Group S.P.A focus on?

Aetna Group S.P.A's top technology area is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking) with 18 patents, ranking #69 of 1,343 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Aetna Group S.P.A's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aetna Group S.P.A's recent grant velocity is +117% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Aetna Group S.P.A's patents?

Aetna Group S.P.A's patents average 15.9 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 Aetna Group S.P.A 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

Aetna Group S.P.A

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aetna ranks #14,433 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 10 technology areas.

#14,433
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: +117%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14433 · Foreign Corporation #14,433 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,433/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 3-5 Power
CPC-FOCUS B65B · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +117% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 3-5 Power Electronics GmbH (±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 Aetna’s 51.3 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 10.5 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 11.2 pts (22%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Appareo Systems · near

51
Northwest Instrument · near

51
Vektor Medical · near

51
Aetna Group S P A · this assignee

51
National Science… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aetna's Innovation Score is 51.3/100 (top 12% 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 Aetna?

Each dot is one of Aetna’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). Aetna’s own 15.9 claims/patent is at or below the 17.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Aetna's grants concentrate

Aetna Group S.P.A is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Aetna sits between 3-5 Power Electronics GmbH and AGT International GMBH.

Aetna's three-year grant acceleration

Aetna Group S.P.A shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

3-5 Power

20
A J Antunes &

20
Adlens

20
Advanced Wireless…

20
Affiris

20
AFI Licensing

20
Afilias

20
AGT International

20
Aetna Group S P A ◀

20

What this shows Aetna holds 20 patents at rank #14,420, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aetna

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,420 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65B (Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aetna, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65B (Machines), Aetna ranks #69 of 1,343 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

National Science Foundation 51 Northwest Instrument Inc. 51 Appareo Systems, LLC 51 Vektor Medical, Inc. 51

Aetna's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Aetna Group S.P.A patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.0%
2017	3	15.0%
2018	2	10.0%
2020	2	10.0%
2022	4	20.0%
2023	3	15.0%
2024	4	20.0%
2025partial year	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Aetna Group S.P.A patent most?

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 18

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

B61B - Railway SYSTEMS; Equipment Therefor NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Aetna Group S.P.A's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aetna Group S.P.A's lead technology class is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking), 90% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65B
Ranked #14,433 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aetna Group S.P.A against 3-5 Power Electronics GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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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