Where does Agfa NV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Agfa NV ranks #2,306 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 Agfa NV hold?

Agfa NV holds 169 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Agfa NV's Innovation Score?

Agfa NV has an Innovation Score of 56.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Agfa NV focus on?

Agfa NV's top technology area is B41M (Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing,) with 82 patents, ranking #6 of 466 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

Is Agfa NV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Agfa NV's recent grant velocity is +90% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Agfa NV's patents?

Agfa NV's patents average 14.1 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 Agfa NV 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

Agfa NV

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 169 granted patents across 63 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B41M (Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Agfa ranks #2,306 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 169 patents across 63 technology areas.

#2,306
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.0/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: +90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2306 · Foreign Corporation #2,306 · 169 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 169 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,306/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 7-eleven
CPC-WIDE B41M · 63 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 7-eleven, 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 Agfa’s 56.0 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 17.7 pts (32%) Velocity 4.8 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agfa · this assignee

56
Conmed · near

56
UVic Industry… · near

56
Bar-Ilan University · near

56
Continental Reifen… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Agfa's Innovation Score is 56.0/100 (top 6% 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 Agfa?

Each dot is one of Agfa’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). Agfa’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Agfa's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Agfa NV received 97 grants versus 51 in 2015–2019 (+90% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 32 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 14. Lead class B41M accounts for 48.5% of the portfolio across 63 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd. (#2,303) and Dongbu Daewoo Electronics Corporation (#2,311).

Agfa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Agfa NV moved from 75 to 54 grants (0.72x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,086. See the growth leaderboard.

Sungrow Power Sup…

170
Ultrahaptics IP T…

170
7-eleven

169
Asahi Kasei Chemi…

169
Blueowl

169
Bragi

169
Danieli & C Offic…

169
Dongbu Daewoo

169
Agfa ◀

169

What this shows Agfa holds 169 patents at rank #2,307, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Agfa

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,307 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41M (Printing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Agfa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B41M (Printing), Agfa ranks #6 of 466 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Conmed Corporation 56 UVic Industry Partnerships Inc. 56 Bar-Ilan University 56 Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.1 here).

Biotronik AG 14.1 avg Institute OF Microelectronics OF THE Chinese Academy OF Sciences 14.1 avg B&R Industrial Automation GmbH 14.1 avg Oki Data Corporation 14.1 avg

Agfa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Agfa NV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	19	11.2%
2019	32	18.9%
2020	29	17.2%
2021	14	8.3%
2022	16	9.5%
2023	15	8.9%
2024	23	13.6%
2025partial year	21	12.4%

Which technologies does Agfa NV patent most?

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 82

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 79

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 66

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 23

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 21

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 18

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 17

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 16

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 15

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 15

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 14

B41C - Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces 13

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 13

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 12

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 12

Top 15 of 63 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

Agfa NV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Agfa NV's lead technology class is B41M (Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing,), 48.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41M
Ranked #2,306 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Agfa NV against Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.0/100 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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