Where does Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. ranks #2,956 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 Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. hold?

Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. holds 128 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. has an Innovation Score of 56.3 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%).

Is Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.'s recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.'s patents?

Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.'s patents average 15.8 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 Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. 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

Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.

Q: What technology areas does Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. focus on?

Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.'s top technology area is 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) with 110 patents, ranking #26 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 128 granted patents across 56 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: 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 Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Akzo ranks #2,956 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 128 patents across 56 technology areas.

#2,956
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2956 · Foreign Corporation #2,956 · 128 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 128 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,956/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Automotive Research…
CPC-WIDE C09D · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Automotive Research & Testing Center (±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 Akzo’s 56.3 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 16.8 pts (30%) Velocity 5.0 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akzo Nobel Coatings… · this assignee

56
Intertrust · near

56
The University of… · near

56
Tompkins Robotics · near

56
Versum Materials US · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Akzo's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (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 Akzo?

Each dot is one of Akzo’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). Akzo’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Akzo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. received 35 grants versus 80 in 2015–2019 (-56% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class C09D accounts for 85.9% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Omnissa, LLC (#2,952) and Discma AG (#2,960).

Akzo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. moved from 28 to 21 grants (0.75x 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 #1,994. See the growth leaderboard.

Omnissa

129
Swagelok

129
University OF Sou…

129
Woodstream

129
Automotive Resear…

128
Beijing Kuaimajia…

128
Cytec Industries

128
Discma

128
Akzo Nobel Coatin… ◀

128

What this shows Akzo holds 128 patents at rank #2,956, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Akzo

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,956 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Akzo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Akzo ranks #26 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Intertrust Technologies Corporation 56 Versum Materials US, LLC 56 The University of Bristol 56 Tompkins Robotics, Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

The University of Melbourne 15.8 avg The University of Miami 15.8 avg Adient Luxembourg Holding S.a.r.l. 15.8 avg Sika Technology AG 15.8 avg

Akzo'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	10.2%
2016	19	14.8%
2017	19	14.8%
2018	15	11.7%
2019	14	10.9%
2020	7	5.5%
2021	7	5.5%
2022	10	7.8%
2023	1	0.8%
2024	10	7.8%
2025partial year	13	10.2%

Which technologies does Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. patent most?

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 110

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 58

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 36

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 29

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 23

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 22

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 10

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

Top 15 of 56 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

Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.'s lead technology class is 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 Materi), 85.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #2,956 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. against Omnissa, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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

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