Where does Akwel Sa rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Akwel Sa ranks #20,709 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Akwel Sa hold?

Akwel Sa holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2022, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Akwel Sa's Innovation Score?

Akwel Sa has an Innovation Score of 38.4 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Akwel Sa's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Akwel Sa's recent grant velocity is -37% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Akwel Sa's patents?

Akwel Sa's patents average 17.8 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 Akwel Sa 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

Akwel Sa

Q: What technology areas does Akwel Sa focus on?

Akwel Sa's top technology area is F01N (GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2022. 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: F01N (GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Akwel ranks #20,709 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 26 technology areas.

#20,709
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.4/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20709 · Foreign Corporation #20,709 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,709/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH AIRWAY MEDIX
CPC-FOCUS F01N · 26 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Airway Medix S.a. (±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
Akwel · this assignee

38
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Akwel's Innovation Score is 38.4/100 (top 41% 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 Akwel's grants concentrate

Akwel Sa is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 53.8% of grants classified under F01N (GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Akwel sits between Airway Medix S.a. and Allied TUBE & Conduit Corporation.

Airway Medix

13
Aisin KAKO

13
AK Globaltech

13
AK Steel Properti…

13
ALD Group

13
ALL Packaging

13
All-logic INT

13
Allied TUBE & Con…

13
Akwel ◀

13

What this shows Akwel holds 13 patents at rank #20,694, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Akwel

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,694 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR E…)

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

Akwel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2022

Grants by year

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

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Akwel Sa patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	8	61.5%
2020	3	23.1%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Akwel Sa patent most?

F01N - GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES 7

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 5

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 4

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 3

B60K - ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY 2

G01K - MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 2

G01M - TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 2

G01F - MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME 2

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 1

F04C - ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS ; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS 1

E05B - LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS 1

G01L - MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE 1

B60T - VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL ; ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES 1

B29L - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES 1

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 1

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,709

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

38.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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