Where does Amtech Systems, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Amtech Systems, LLC ranks #7,657 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 Amtech Systems, LLC hold?

Amtech Systems, LLC holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Amtech Systems, LLC's Innovation Score?

Amtech Systems, LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.1 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Amtech Systems, LLC focus on?

Amtech Systems, LLC's top technology area is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers) with 30 patents, ranking #86 of 1,953 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Amtech Systems, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Amtech Systems, LLC's recent grant velocity is -38% 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 Amtech Systems, LLC's patents?

Amtech Systems, LLC's patents average 14.9 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 Amtech Systems, LLC 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 US Corporation

Amtech Systems, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Amtech ranks #7,657 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 17 technology areas.

#7,657
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.1/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7657 · US Corporation #7,657 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,657/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Allergan Industrie SAS
CPC-FOCUS G06K · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Allergan Industrie, 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 Amtech’s 42.1 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 13.0 pts (31%) Velocity 5.6 pts (13%) Breadth 14.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amtech Systems · this assignee

42
Canadian Tire · near

42
Rockwell Automation… · near

42
Watt Fuel Cell · near

42
Zhejiang Shenghui… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Amtech's Innovation Score is 42.1/100 (top 31% 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 Amtech?

Each dot is one of Amtech’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). Amtech’s own 14.9 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.

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

Where Amtech's grants concentrate

Amtech Systems, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Amtech sits between Allnex Netherlands BV and Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited.

Amtech's three-year grant acceleration

Amtech Systems, LLC shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Allnex Netherland…

42
ARB

42
Ascendis Pharma A…

42
Allergan Industri…

42
Arity Internation…

42
Armaments Research

42
Attochron

42
Aurigene Discovery

42
Amtech Systems ◀

42

What this shows Amtech holds 42 patents at rank #7,659, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Amtech

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,659 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06K (Graphical Data Reading)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Amtech, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06K (Graphical Data Reading), Amtech ranks #86 of 1,953 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited 42 Zhejiang Shenghui Lighting Co., Ltd. 42 Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific Business Center Pte. Ltd. 42 Watt Fuel Cell Corp. 42

Amtech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Amtech Systems, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.1%
2016	7	16.7%
2017	6	14.3%
2018	4	9.5%
2019	6	14.3%
2020	4	9.5%
2021	2	4.8%
2022	5	11.9%
2023	2	4.8%
2024	3	7.1%

Which technologies does Amtech Systems, LLC patent most?

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 30

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 20

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 11

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 9

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 9

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 8

H04Q - Selecting 7

H04B - Transmission 3

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 2

E01F - Additional Work, Such AS Equipping Roads OR THE Construction OF Platforms, Helicopter Landing Stages, Signs, Snow Fences, OR THE Like 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Amtech Systems, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Amtech Systems, LLC's lead technology class is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06K
Ranked #7,657 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Amtech Systems, LLC against Allnex Netherlands BV, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.1/100 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

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