Where does Albea Services rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Albea Services ranks #2,983 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 Albea Services hold?

Albea Services holds 127 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Albea Services's Innovation Score?

Albea Services has an Innovation Score of 46.0 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Albea Services's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Albea Services's recent grant velocity is -36% 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 Albea Services's patents?

Albea Services's patents average 11.0 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 Albea Services 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

Albea Services

Q: What technology areas does Albea Services focus on?

Albea Services's top technology area is A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring) with 73 patents. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 127 granted patents across 24 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: A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Albea ranks #2,983 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 127 patents across 24 technology areas.

#2,983
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.0/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: -36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2983 · Foreign Corporation #2,983 · 127 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 127 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,983/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Power Grids…
CPC-FOCUS A45D · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AG (±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
Airbus · near

46
Albea Services · this assignee

46
Axogen · near

46
Nuovo Pignone SPA · near

46
Wyatt Technology · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Albea's Innovation Score is 46.0/100 (top 22% 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 Albea's grants concentrate

Albea Services is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 57.5% of grants classified under A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (18 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2023. By volume, Albea sits between University OF Wyoming and Corning Cable Systems LLC.

Albea's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Albea Services moved from 34 to 27 grants (0.79x 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 #1,860. See the growth leaderboard.

University OF Wyo…

128
Vrije Universitei…

128
simplehuman

128
ABB Power Grids S…

127
Axsome Therapeuti…

127
Basell Polyolefine

127
Centre National d…

127
Corning Cable Sys…

127
Albea Services ◀

127

What this shows Albea holds 127 patents at rank #2,983, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Albea

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,983 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Albea, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Wyatt Technology, LLC 46 Nuovo Pignone SPA 46 Airbus 46 Axogen Corporation 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.0 here).

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC 11.0 avg Nicoventures Holdings Limited 11.0 avg Sotera Wireless, Inc. 11.0 avg Qingdao Haier Drum Washing Machine Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg

Albea's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Albea Services patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	3.9%
2016	18	14.2%
2017	18	14.2%
2018	18	14.2%
2019	14	11.0%
2020	14	11.0%
2021	6	4.7%
2022	8	6.3%
2023	4	3.1%
2024	15	11.8%
2025partial year	7	5.5%

Which technologies does Albea Services patent most?

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 73

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 43

A46B - Brushes 27

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 15

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 13

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 13

A46D - Manufacture OF Brushes 10

A41G - Artificial FLOWERS; WIGS; MASKS; Feathers 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

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

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 4

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

Top 15 of 24 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,983

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

46.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Albea Services's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Albea Services's lead technology class is A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring), 57.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A45D
Ranked #2,983 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Albea Services against University OF Wyoming, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.0/100 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

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