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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Afros S.P.A. ranks #23,803 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 Afros S.P.A. hold?

Afros S.P.A. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Afros S.P.A.'s Innovation Score?

Afros S.P.A. has an Innovation Score of 53.4 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Afros S.P.A.'s recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Afros S.P.A.'s patents average 21.8 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 Afros 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

Afros S.P.A.

Q: What technology areas does Afros S.P.A. focus on?

Afros S.P.A.'s top technology area is B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics) with 11 patents, ranking #56 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 11 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: B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Afros ranks #23,803 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 11 technology areas.

#23,803
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.4/100): 21.8
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23803 · Foreign Corporation #23,803 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #23,803/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adwen
CPC-FOCUS B29B · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adwen 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 Afros’s 53.4 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 8.6 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 11.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 13.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Afros S P A · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Afros's Innovation Score is 53.4/100 (top 9% 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 Afros?

Each dot is one of Afros’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). Afros’s own 21.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Afros's grants concentrate

Afros S.P.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Afros sits between Adwen GMBH and AGF Manufacturing, Inc..

Afros's three-year grant acceleration

Afros S.P.A. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Adwen

11
Aecom

11
Aeolus Robotics

11
Aeroantenna Techn…

11
Agarik SAS

11
AGC Chemicals Ame…

11
Agco

11
AGF Manufacturing

11
Afros S P A ◀

11

What this shows Afros holds 11 patents at rank #23,775, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Afros

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,775 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE Shaped)

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

Afros's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Afros S.P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	1	9.1%
2021	1	9.1%
2022	2	18.2%
2023	2	18.2%
2024	2	18.2%
2025partial year	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Afros S.P.A. patent most?

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 11

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 10

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 5

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 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

Top 11 of 11 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

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

Afros S.P.A.'s lead technology class is B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29B
Ranked #23,803 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Afros S.P.A. against Adwen GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.4/100 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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