Where does AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ ranks #10,531 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 AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ hold?

AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ's Innovation Score?

AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ has an Innovation Score of 46.5 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ focus on?

AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ's top technology area is B01D (Separation) with 15 patents, ranking #322 of 3,536 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ's recent grant velocity is +122% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ's patents?

AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ's patents average 21.4 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 AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ 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

AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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: B01D (Separation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ahlstrom-munksjö ranks #10,531 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 34 technology areas.

#10,531
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.5/100): 21.4
avg claims per patent: +122%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10531 · Foreign Corporation #10,531 · 29 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,531/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acea Biosciences
CPC-FOCUS B01D · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +122% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acea Biosciences, 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 Ahlstrom-munksjö’s 46.5 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 11.7 pts (25%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 20.6 pts (44%) Claim depth 12.9 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ · this assignee

47
Prinoth S P A · near

47
Rieke · near

47
TCL Research America · near

47
Asetek Danmark A/S · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ahlstrom-munksjö's Innovation Score is 46.5/100 (top 21% 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 Ahlstrom-munksjö?

Each dot is one of Ahlstrom-munksjö’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). Ahlstrom-munksjö’s own 21.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ahlstrom-munksjö's grants concentrate

AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 51.7% of grants classified under B01D (Separation). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Ahlstrom-munksjö sits between Acea Biosciences, Inc. and Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd..

Ahlstrom-munksjö's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ moved from 21 to 4 grants (0.19x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Acea Biosciences

29
ADC Telecommunica…

29
Adhezion Biomedic…

29
Agrivida

29
Amcor Flexibles N…

29
Ameriforge Group

29
Ametek

29
Aoyama Seisakusho

29
Ahlstrom-munksjÖ… ◀

29

What this shows AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ holds 29 patents at rank #10,526, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,526 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01D (Separation)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01D (Separation), AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ ranks #322 of 3,536 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Rieke LLC 47 Prinoth S.P.A. 47 TCL Research America Inc. 47 Asetek Danmark A/S 46

Ahlstrom-munksjö's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 21% higher than 79% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.4%
2018	3	10.3%
2019	5	17.2%
2020	11	37.9%
2021	5	17.2%
2022	4	13.8%

Which technologies does AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ patent most?

B01D - Separation 15

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 9

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

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 3

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 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

F03D - Wind Motors 2

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 2

D05B - Sewing 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 2

Top 15 of 34 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

AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ's lead technology class is B01D (Separation), 51.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01D
Ranked #10,531 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ against Acea Biosciences, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.5/100 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.

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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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