Where does Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. ranks #9,427 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 Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. hold?

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.6 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -35% 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 Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.'s patents?

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.'s patents average 16.9 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 Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. focus on?

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.'s top technology area is B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics) with 20 patents, ranking #28 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Albany ranks #9,427 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 23 technology areas.

#9,427
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.6/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9427 · US Corporation #9,427 · 33 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,427/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Agriculture…
CPC-FOCUS B29B · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY Ltd (±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 Albany’s 57.6 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 12.2 pts (21%) Velocity 18.3 pts (32%) Breadth 17.0 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Albany Engineered… · this assignee

58
Institute of Optics… · near

58
Kctech · near

58
Shenzhen Xpectvision… · near

58
Siemens Energy AS · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Albany's Innovation Score is 57.6/100 (top 5% 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 Albany?

Each dot is one of Albany’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). Albany’s own 16.9 claims/patent is at or below the 17.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Albany's grants concentrate

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 60.6% of grants classified under B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Albany sits between Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation and AppDynamics LLC.

Albany's three-year grant acceleration

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Asahi Kasei Fibers

33
Agriculture Victo…

33
Ai Cure

33
Aircraft Medical

33
Aligos Therapeuti…

33
Almirall

33
Altia Systems

33
Appdynamics

33
Albany Engineered… ◀

33

What this shows Albany holds 33 patents at rank #9,430, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Albany

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,430 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE Shaped)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Albany, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE Shaped), Albany ranks #28 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Kctech Co., Ltd. 58 Siemens Energy AS 58 Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 58 Shenzhen Xpectvision Technology Co., Ltd. 58

Albany's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	18.2%
2016	3	9.1%
2017	4	12.1%
2018	5	15.2%
2019	2	6.1%
2021	2	6.1%
2022	1	3.0%
2023	4	12.1%
2024	6	18.2%

Which technologies does Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. patent most?

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 20

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 18

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 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 10

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 9

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 9

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 7

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

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 5

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 5

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 5

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 4

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 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 3

Top 15 of 23 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

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.'s lead technology class is B29B (Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics), 60.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29B
Ranked #9,427 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. against Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.6/100 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

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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

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