Where does Andritz Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Andritz Inc. ranks #2,872 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 Andritz Inc. hold?

Andritz Inc. holds 133 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 88 technology areas.

What is Andritz Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Andritz Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.9 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Andritz Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Andritz Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Andritz Inc.'s patents?

Andritz Inc.'s patents average 16.7 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 Andritz Inc. 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

Andritz Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Andritz Inc. focus on?

Andritz Inc.'s top technology area is D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor) with 40 patents, ranking #3 of 161 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 88 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 133 granted patents across 88 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: D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Andritz ranks #2,872 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 133 patents across 88 technology areas.

#2,872
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.9/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2872 · US Corporation #2,872 · 133 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 133 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,872/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alkermes Pharma…
CPC-WIDE D21C · 88 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alkermes Pharma Ireland Limited (±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 Andritz’s 57.9 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 16.9 pts (29%) Velocity 5.9 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Andritz · this assignee

58
Chemetall · near

58
Conair · near

58
Kemet · near

58
Techtronic Floor… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Andritz's Innovation Score is 57.9/100 (top 5% 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 Andritz?

Each dot is one of Andritz’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). Andritz’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Andritz's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Andritz Inc. received 57 grants versus 69 in 2015–2019 (-17% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 21 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 7. Lead class D21C accounts for 30.1% of the portfolio across 88 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Tokyo Visionary Optics Co., Ltd. (#2,866) and BBY Solutions, Inc. (#2,874).

Andritz's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Andritz Inc. moved from 37 to 33 grants (0.89x 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 #1,507. See the growth leaderboard.

Tokyo Visionary O…

134
Universite DE Str…

134
Vioptix

134
Wayne Fueling Sys…

134
Alkermes Pharma I…

133
Alpha and Omega S…

133
Arctic Cat

133
BBY Solutions

133
Andritz ◀

133

What this shows Andritz holds 133 patents at rank #2,870, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Andritz

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,870 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substan…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Andritz, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substan…), Andritz ranks #3 of 161 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Kemet Electronics Corporation 58 Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited 58 Chemetall GMBH 58 Conair LLC 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Melexis Technologies SA 16.7 avg Toyota Motor North America, Inc. 16.7 avg Sorin Group Italia S.r.l. 16.7 avg Flosfia Inc. 16.7 avg

Andritz's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Andritz Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	15.8%
2016	15	11.3%
2017	10	7.5%
2018	10	7.5%
2019	13	9.8%
2020	13	9.8%
2021	11	8.3%
2022	11	8.3%
2023	15	11.3%
2024	7	5.3%
2025partial year	7	5.3%

Which technologies does Andritz Inc. patent most?

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 40

D21D - Treatment OF THE Materials Before Passing TO THE Paper-making Machine 35

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 20

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 19

B01D - Separation 16

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 11

B30B - Presses IN General 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

D21G - CALENDERS; Accessories FOR Paper-making Machines 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

D21B - Fibrous RAW Materials OR Their Mechanical Treatment 7

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 6

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 6

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 6

Top 15 of 88 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

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

Andritz Inc.'s lead technology class is D21C (Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor), 30.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21C
Ranked #2,872 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Andritz Inc. against Tokyo Visionary Optics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.9/100 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

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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