Where does Agfa Offset BV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Agfa Offset BV ranks #25,674 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 Offset BV hold?

Agfa Offset BV holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Agfa Offset BV's Innovation Score?

Agfa Offset BV has an Innovation Score of 50.3 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Agfa Offset BV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Agfa Offset BV.

What does claim depth mean for Agfa Offset BV's patents?

Agfa Offset BV's patents average 18.1 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 Offset BV 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 Offset BV

Q: What technology areas does Agfa Offset BV focus on?

Agfa Offset BV's top technology area is B41C (Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2024. 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: B41C (Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Agfa ranks #25,674 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 10 technology areas.

#25,674
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25674 · Foreign Corporation #25,674 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #25,674/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Concrete
CPC-FOCUS B41C · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2024 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Concrete Technologies LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agfa Offset BV · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Agfa's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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.

Where Agfa's grants concentrate

Agfa Offset BV is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under B41C (Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Agfa sits between Advanced Concrete Technologies LLC and Aires Medical LLC..

Agfa's three-year grant acceleration

Agfa Offset BV shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Advanced Concrete

10
Advanced Silicon

10
Advantus

10
Aerovel

10
Ahlstrom

10
Aimmune Therapeut…

10
Airbus Corporate…

10
Aires Medical

10
Agfa Offset BV ◀

10

What this shows Agfa holds 10 patents at rank #25,753, 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 #25,753 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41C (Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing…)

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

Agfa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Agfa Offset BV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	10.0%
2023	8	80.0%
2024	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Agfa Offset BV patent most?

B41C - Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces 8

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; 6

B41N - Printing Plates OR Foils ; Materials FOR Surfaces Used IN Printing Machines FOR Printing, Inking, Damping, OR THE LIKE; Preparing Such Surfaces FOR USE AND Conserving Them 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 4

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 4

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,674

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Agfa Offset BV's lead technology class is B41C (Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41C
Ranked #25,674 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Agfa Offset BV against Advanced Concrete Technologies LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.