Where does Albany International Corp rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Albany International Corp ranks #8,736 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 International Corp hold?

Albany International Corp holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Albany International Corp's Innovation Score?

Albany International Corp has an Innovation Score of 48.3 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Albany International Corp focus on?

Albany International Corp's top technology area is D21F (Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon) with 25 patents, ranking #6 of 93 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is Albany International Corp's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Albany International Corp's recent grant velocity is +6% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Albany International Corp's patents?

Albany International Corp's patents average 21.1 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 Albany International Corp 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 International Corp

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 36 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: D21F (Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Albany ranks #8,736 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 36 technology areas.

#8,736
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.3/100): 21.1
avg claims per patent: +6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8736 · US Corporation #8,736 · 36 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,736/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acciona Windpower
CPC-FOCUS D21F · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acciona Windpower, 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.

How Albany’s 48.3 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 12.5 pts (26%) Velocity 2.0 pts (4%) Breadth 21.2 pts (44%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Albany International · this assignee

48
Buerkert Werke & KG · near

48
Fast IP · near

48
Lingdong Technology… · near

48
Pentair Residential… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Albany's Innovation Score is 48.3/100 (top 17% 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 21.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Albany's grants concentrate

Albany International Corp is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 69.4% of grants classified under D21F (Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Albany sits between AQ Corporation and Amphenol East Asia Electronic Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd..

Albany's three-year grant acceleration

Albany International Corp shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

AQ

36
ATC

36
Acciona Windpower

36
Airwair Internati…

36
Alibaba (China)

36
Amcor

36
American Lithium…

36
Amphenol East Asi…

36
Albany Internatio… ◀

36

What this shows Albany holds 36 patents at rank #8,739, 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 #8,739 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21F (Paper-making Machines)

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 D21F (Paper-making Machines), Albany ranks #6 of 93 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Lingdong Technology (BEIJING) Co. Ltd. 48 Pentair Residential Filtration, LLC 48 Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG 48 Fast IP, LLC 48

Albany's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Albany International Corp patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	8.3%
2016	3	8.3%
2017	2	5.6%
2018	5	13.9%
2019	4	11.1%
2020	9	25.0%
2021	4	11.1%
2022	2	5.6%
2023	3	8.3%
2025partial year	1	2.8%

Which technologies does Albany International Corp patent most?

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 25

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 21

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 14

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 10

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 9

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 9

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 8

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 7

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 6

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 5

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 4

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 3

D06H - Marking, Inspecting, Seaming OR Severing Textile Materials 3

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 3

Top 15 of 36 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 International Corp's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Albany International Corp's lead technology class is D21F (Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon), 69.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21F
Ranked #8,736 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Albany International Corp against AQ Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.3/100 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

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