Where does Altek Europe Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Altek Europe Limited ranks #20,723 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 Altek Europe Limited hold?

Altek Europe Limited holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Altek Europe Limited's Innovation Score?

Altek Europe Limited has an Innovation Score of 39.6 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Altek Europe Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Altek Europe Limited's recent grant velocity is +400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Altek Europe Limited's patents?

Altek Europe Limited's patents average 15.5 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 Altek Europe Limited 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

Altek Europe Limited

Q: What technology areas does Altek Europe Limited focus on?

Altek Europe Limited's top technology area is F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace) with 10 patents, ranking #30 of 350 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Altek ranks #20,723 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 10 technology areas.

#20,723
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.6/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20723 · Foreign Corporation #20,723 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,723/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aivitae
CPC-FOCUS F27D · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aivitae LLC (±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 Altek’s 39.6 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 9.1 pts (23%) Velocity 10.0 pts (25%) Breadth 11.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Altek Europe · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Altek's Innovation Score is 39.6/100 (top 38% 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 Altek?

Each dot is one of Altek’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). Altek’s own 15.5 claims/patent is at or below the 18.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Altek's grants concentrate

Altek Europe Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 76.9% of grants classified under F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Altek sits between Aivitae LLC and Amera IoT Inc..

Altek's three-year grant acceleration

Altek Europe Limited shows 6 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.

Aivitae

13
Akouos

13
Alcacruz

13
Alps South Europe…

13
Ambeent

13
Amber Solutions

13
Amec Foster Wheel…

13
Amera Iot

13
Altek Europe ◀

13

What this shows Altek holds 13 patents at rank #20,758, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Altek

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,758 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces)

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

Altek's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Altek Europe Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	7.7%
2017	1	7.7%
2020	3	23.1%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	2	15.4%
2023	3	23.1%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Altek Europe Limited patent most?

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 10

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 8

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 8

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 3

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

B01D - Separation 2

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 1

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Altek Europe Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Altek Europe Limited's lead technology class is F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace), 76.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F27D
Ranked #20,723 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Altek Europe Limited against Aivitae LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.6/100 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

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

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.