Where does Aspen Technology, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aspen Technology, Inc. ranks #10,858 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 Aspen Technology, Inc. hold?

Aspen Technology, Inc. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Aspen Technology, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Aspen Technology, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.2 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Aspen Technology, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aspen Technology, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -67% 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 Aspen Technology, Inc.'s patents?

Aspen Technology, Inc.'s patents average 19.6 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 Aspen 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

Aspen Technology, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Aspen Technology, Inc. focus on?

Aspen Technology, Inc.'s top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 13 patents, ranking #358 of 3,455 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aspen ranks #10,858 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 10 technology areas.

#10,858
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.2/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10858 · US Corporation #10,858 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,858/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Anapass
CPC-FOCUS G05B · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Anapass 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 Aspen’s 36.2 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 11.6 pts (32%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 11.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bluebird BIO · near

36
Oldcastle BuildingEn… · near

36
Aspen Technology · this assignee

36
Dynamic Controls · near

36
Rivada Networks · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aspen's Innovation Score is 36.2/100 (top 47% 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 Aspen?

Each dot is one of Aspen’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). Aspen’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Aspen's grants concentrate

Aspen Technology, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 46.4% of grants classified under G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Aspen sits between Anapass Inc. and Auradine, Inc..

Aspen's three-year grant acceleration

Aspen Technology, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Anapass

28
Apothecary Produc…

28
Aptinyx

28
Ariad Pharmaceuti…

28
Atlas Copco IAS UK

28
Atlas Copco Rock…

28
Atos Medical AB

28
Auradine

28
Aspen Technology ◀

28

What this shows Aspen holds 28 patents at rank #10,860, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aspen

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,860 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aspen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General), Aspen ranks #358 of 3,455 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Rivada Networks, LLC 36 Dynamic Controls 36 Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, Inc. 36 Bluebird BIO, Inc. 36

Aspen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Aspen Technology, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	10.7%
2016	4	14.3%
2017	5	17.9%
2018	6	21.4%
2019	3	10.7%
2020	2	7.1%
2021	3	10.7%
2022	2	7.1%

Which technologies does Aspen Technology, Inc. patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G16C - Computational CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; Computational Materials Science 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

B01D - Separation 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

Top 10 of 10 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

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

Aspen Technology, Inc.'s lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 46.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #10,858 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aspen Technology, Inc. against Anapass Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.2/100 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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