Where does Alstom Transport Technologies rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Alstom Transport Technologies ranks #1,742 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 Alstom Transport Technologies hold?

Alstom Transport Technologies holds 233 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 113 technology areas.

What is Alstom Transport Technologies's Innovation Score?

Alstom Transport Technologies has an Innovation Score of 52.4 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Alstom Transport Technologies focus on?

Alstom Transport Technologies's top technology area is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic) with 85 patents, ranking #3 of 195 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 113 CPC subclasses total.

Is Alstom Transport Technologies's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Alstom Transport Technologies's recent grant velocity is +11% 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 Alstom Transport Technologies's patents?

Alstom Transport Technologies's patents average 11.3 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 Alstom Transport Technologies 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

Alstom Transport Technologies

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 233 granted patents across 113 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: B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Alstom ranks #1,742 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 233 patents across 113 technology areas.

#1,742
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.4/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: +11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1742 · Foreign Corporation #1,742 · 233 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 233 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,742/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aptar France SAS
CPC-WIDE B61L · 113 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aptar France SAS (±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 Alstom’s 52.4 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 18.8 pts (36%) Velocity 1.7 pts (3%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alstom Transport · this assignee

52
John I Haas · near

52
NO 24 Research… · near

52
Ormco · near

52
Servier Pharmaceutic… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Alstom's Innovation Score is 52.4/100 (top 10% 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 Alstom?

Each dot is one of Alstom’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). Alstom’s own 11.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Alstom's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Alstom Transport Technologies received 122 grants versus 110 in 2015–2019 (+11% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 47 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 6. Lead class B61L accounts for 36.5% of the portfolio across 113 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (#1,738) and Magna International Inc. (#1,746).

Alstom's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Alstom Transport Technologies moved from 134 to 34 grants (0.25x 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 #3,039. See the growth leaderboard.

Williams-sonoma

235
Yoshino Kogyosho

235
JX Nippon Oil & E…

234
Saudi Basic Indus…

234
Aptar France SAS

233
Beihang University

233
Evoqua Water

233
Magna Internation…

233
Alstom Transport ◀

233

What this shows Alstom holds 233 patents at rank #1,742, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Alstom

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,742 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Alstom, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic), Alstom ranks #3 of 195 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Ormco Corporation 52 NO.24 Research Institute OF China Electronics Technology Group Corporation 52 Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC 52 John I. Haas, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.3 here).

Thule Sweden AB 11.3 avg Consejo Nacional DE Investigaciones CIENTÍFICAS Y TÉCNICAS (CONICET) 11.3 avg Schneider Toshiba Inverter Europe SAS 11.3 avg Grammer AG 11.4 avg

Alstom's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Alstom Transport Technologies patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	2.6%
2016	7	3.0%
2017	26	11.2%
2018	25	10.7%
2019	46	19.7%
2020	47	20.2%
2021	41	17.6%
2022	13	5.6%
2023	14	6.0%
2024	7	3.0%
2025partial year	1	0.4%

Which technologies does Alstom Transport Technologies patent most?

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 85

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 46

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 34

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 34

B60M - Power Supply Lines, AND Devices Along Rails, FOR Electrically- Propelled Vehicles 26

B61F - Rail Vehicle Suspensions, e.g. Underframes, Bogies OR Arrangements OF Wheel AXLES; Rail Vehicles FOR USE ON Tracks OF Different WIDTH; Preventing Derailing OF Rail VEHICLES; Wheel Guards, Obstruction Removers OR THE Like FOR Rail Vehicles 25

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 25

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 11

H04B - Transmission 11

E01B - Permanent WAY; Permanent-way TOOLS; Machines FOR Making Railways OF ALL Kinds 10

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 8

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 8

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 8

Top 15 of 113 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

Alstom Transport Technologies's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Alstom Transport Technologies's lead technology class is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic), 36.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B61L
Ranked #1,742 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Alstom Transport Technologies against Williams-Sonoma, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.4/100 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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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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