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Alliant Techsystems Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2015. 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: F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Alliant ranks #16,573 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 23 technology areas.

#16,573
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 42%
by Innovation Score (37.9/100)
18.3
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16573 · US Corporation #16,573 · 17 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
  • MID-PACK #16,573/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Akron Polymer Systems
  • CPC-FOCUS F42B · 23 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 37.9/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Akron Polymer Systems, Inc. (±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 Alliant’s 37.9 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Alliant

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Alliant's Innovation Score is 37.9/100 (top 42% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Alliant?

Each dot is one of Alliant’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). Alliant’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Alliant vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 16.916.91717.1 0102030 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Akron Polymer Systems, Inc. - 17, 23.12Akron Polymer Sys…Alex and Ani, LLC - 17, 3.24Alex and AniAlla France - 17, 1Alla FranceAllegheny Singer Research Institute - 17, 17.06Allegheny Singer…Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. - 17, 25Allogene Therapeu…Alltech, Inc. - 17, 20.06AlltechAlpha/Omega Energy Solutions, LLC - 17, 7.59Alpha/Omega Energ…AmDerma Pharmaceuticals, LLC - 17, 13.47Amderma Pharmaceu…Alliant Techsystems Inc. - 17, 18.29Alliant Techsyste…
Alliant vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Alliant's grants concentrate

Alliant Techsystems Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 41.2% of grants classified under F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition). By volume, Alliant sits between Akron Polymer Systems, Inc. and AmDerma Pharmaceuticals, LLC.

Who files at Alliant's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Alliant holds 17 patents at rank #16,591, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Alliant

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,591 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F42B (Explosive Charges)

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

Alliant's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 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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Alliant Techsystems Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 17 100.0%

Which technologies does Alliant Techsystems Inc. patent most?

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

Alliant Techsystems Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Alliant Techsystems Inc.'s lead technology class is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition), 41.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F42B
  • Ranked #16,573 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Alliant Techsystems Inc. against Akron Polymer Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 37.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.