Where does AOB Products Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AOB Products Company ranks #4,994 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 AOB Products Company hold?

AOB Products Company holds 69 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is AOB Products Company's Innovation Score?

AOB Products Company has an Innovation Score of 68.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is AOB Products Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for AOB Products Company.

What does claim depth mean for AOB Products Company's patents?

AOB Products Company's patents average 24.7 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 AOB Products Company 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

AOB Products Company

Q: What technology areas does AOB Products Company focus on?

AOB Products Company's top technology area is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition) with 17 patents. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 69 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, AOB ranks #4,994 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 69 patents across 29 technology areas.

#4,994
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.5/100): 24.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4994 · US Corporation #4,994 · 69 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 69 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,994/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ALi
CPC-FOCUS F42B · 29 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ALi Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gree Electric… · near

69
Datang Mobile… · near

69
AOB Products · this assignee

69
Globus Medical · near

69
Quantum-Si Incorpora… · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows AOB's Innovation Score is 68.5/100 (top 1% 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.

Where AOB's grants concentrate

AOB Products Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 24.6% of grants classified under F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (18 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2020. By volume, AOB sits between Veltek Associates, Inc. and Bambino Prezioso Switzerland.

AOB's three-year grant acceleration

AOB Products Company shows 42 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Veltek Associates

70
Wabtec Holding

70
Wickr

70
Ali

69
ASM International

69
Astex Therapeutics

69
Augusta Universit…

69
Bambino Prezioso…

69
AOB Products ◀

69

What this shows AOB holds 69 patents at rank #4,994, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AOB

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,994 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F42B (Explosive Charges)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for AOB, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Quantum-Si Incorporated 69 Globus Medical, Inc. 69 Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. 69 Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.7 here).

Berkeley Lights, Inc. 24.7 avg Synchrony Bank 24.7 avg Medivation Technologies LLC 24.8 avg Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. 24.8 avg

AOB's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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AOB Products Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	5	7.2%
2021	6	8.7%
2022	14	20.3%
2023	10	14.5%
2024	18	26.1%
2025partial year	16	23.2%

Which technologies does AOB Products Company patent most?

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 17

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 12

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

B25G - Handles FOR Hand Implements 5

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 4

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 3

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 3

F41J - TARGETS; Target RANGES; Bullet Catchers 3

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 2

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 2

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

Top 15 of 29 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,994

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

68.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

AOB Products Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AOB Products Company's lead technology class is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition), 24.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F42B
Ranked #4,994 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AOB Products Company against Veltek Associates, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.5/100 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.