Overall rank by patents
#20,729
of 50,000 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: G01C (MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, American ranks #20,729 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 15 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R20729 · US Corporation #20,729 · 13 grants
GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL
Nearest grant-volume peer: Alpinion Medical Systems Co., Ltd. (±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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
American Vehicular S… · this assignee
38 score
Id me · near
38 score
OCM · near
38 score
Rexnord Flattop Euro… · near
38 score
Think Laboratory · near
38 score
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest
7 score
What this shows American's Innovation Score is 37.8/100 (top 43% 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.
American Vehicular Sciences Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 53.8% of grants classified under G01C (MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, American sits between Alpinion Medical Systems Co., Ltd. and ANUE Systems, Inc..
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
ALPINION MEDICAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
13 patents
ALPVISION S.A.
13 patents
ALSTOM Renovables España, S.L.
13 patents
ALX Oncology Inc.
13 patents
AMS SENSORS BELGIUM BVBA
13 patents
ANDRITZ HYDRO GMBH
13 patents
ANHUI INNO-SIGN INT'L CO., LTD
13 patents
ANUE SYSTEMS, INC.
13 patents
AMERICAN VEHICULAR SCIENCES LLC
13 patents
What this shows American holds 13 patents at rank #20,707, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #20,707 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in American's primary technology class.
Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for American, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).
Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).
American's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 50,000 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | 53.8% |
| 2017 | 1 | 7.7% |
| 2018 | 2 | 15.4% |
| 2019 | 3 | 23.1% |
Top 15 of 15 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#20,729
of 50,000 tracked assignees
37.8 out of 100
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