Where does A&P Technology, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), A&P Technology, Inc. ranks #20,740 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 A&P Technology, Inc. hold?

A&P Technology, Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is A&P Technology, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

A&P Technology, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.5 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does A&P Technology, Inc. focus on?

A&P Technology, Inc.'s top technology area is D04C (Braiding OR Manufacture OF Lace, Including Bobbin-net OR Carbonised LACE; Braiding MACHINES; BRAID; Lace) with 9 patents, ranking #7 of 82 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is A&P Technology, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

A&P Technology, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -37% 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 A&P Technology, Inc.'s patents?

A&P Technology, Inc.'s patents average 17.1 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 A&P Technology, 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

A&P Technology, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 19 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: D04C (Braiding OR Manufacture OF Lace, Including Bobbin-net OR Carbonised LACE; Braiding MACHINES; BRAID; Lace).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, A&p ranks #20,740 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 19 technology areas.

#20,740
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.5/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20740 · US Corporation #20,740 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,740/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 32Health
CPC-FOCUS D04C · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 32Health Inc. (±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 A&p’s 51.5 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 (18%) Velocity 16.7 pts (32%) Breadth 15.4 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
A&P Technology · this assignee

51
Genomatica · near

51
Glycom A/S · near

51
Nuovo Pignone SRL · near

51
Ssab Technology AB · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows A&p's Innovation Score is 51.5/100 (top 11% 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 A&p?

Each dot is one of A&p’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). A&p’s own 17.1 claims/patent is at or below the 18.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where A&p's grants concentrate

A&P Technology, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under D04C (Braiding OR Manufacture OF Lace, Including Bobbin-net OR Carbonised LACE; Braiding MACHINES; BRAID; Lace). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, A&p sits between 32Health Inc. and ABB K.K..

A&p's three-year grant acceleration

A&P Technology, Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

32health

13
480 Biomedical

13
7D Surgical ULC

13
@PAY IP Holdings

13
Aadigen

13
Aamp of Florida

13
AB Enzymes OY

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ABB K K

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A&P Technology ◀

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What this shows A&P holds 13 patents at rank #20,674, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near A&P

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,674 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D04C (Braiding OR Manufacture OF Lace)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in A&P's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for A&P, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D04C (Braiding OR Manufacture OF Lace), A&P ranks #7 of 82 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Ssab Technology AB 51 Glycom A/S 51 Nuovo Pignone SRL 51 Genomatica, Inc. 51

A&p's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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A&P Technology, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2016	1	7.7%
2017	2	15.4%
2018	1	7.7%
2019	2	15.4%
2023	2	15.4%
2024	3	23.1%

Which technologies does A&P Technology, Inc. patent most?

D04C - Braiding OR Manufacture OF Lace, Including Bobbin-net OR Carbonised LACE; Braiding MACHINES; BRAID; Lace 9

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 6

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 1

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

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

F03D - Wind Motors 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 1

Top 15 of 19 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

A&P Technology, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

A&P Technology, Inc.'s lead technology class is D04C (Braiding OR Manufacture OF Lace, Including Bobbin-net OR Carbonised LACE; Braiding MACHINES; BRAID; Lace), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D04C
Ranked #20,740 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare A&P Technology, Inc. against 32Health Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.5/100 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

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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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