Where does AspenTech Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AspenTech Corporation ranks #17,461 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 AspenTech Corporation hold?

AspenTech Corporation holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is AspenTech Corporation's Innovation Score?

AspenTech Corporation has an Innovation Score of 53.9 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is AspenTech Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for AspenTech Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for AspenTech Corporation's patents?

AspenTech Corporation's patents average 20.7 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 AspenTech Corporation 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

AspenTech Corporation

Q: What technology areas does AspenTech Corporation focus on?

AspenTech Corporation'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 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: 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, Aspentech ranks #17,461 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 11 technology areas.

#17,461
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.9/100): 20.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17461 · US Corporation #17,461 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,461/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ardea Biosciences
CPC-FOCUS G05B · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ardea Biosciences, 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 Aspentech’s 53.9 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 9.8 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 11.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 12.4 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AspenTech · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aspentech's Innovation Score is 53.9/100 (top 8% 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 Aspentech?

Each dot is one of Aspentech’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). Aspentech’s own 20.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Aspentech's grants concentrate

AspenTech Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 81.3% 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 2023 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Aspentech sits between Ardea Biosciences, Inc and Auria Solutions UK I, Ltd..

Aspentech's three-year grant acceleration

AspenTech Corporation shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Ardea Biosciences

16
Arriver Software…

16
Arrowhead Research

16
Asensus Surgical…

16
Astro Technology…

16
Atritech

16
Attivo Networks

16
Auria Solutions U…

16
Aspentech ◀

16

What this shows AspenTech holds 16 patents at rank #17,464, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AspenTech

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,464 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Aspentech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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AspenTech Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	2	12.5%
2023	9	56.3%
2024	3	18.8%
2025partial year	2	12.5%

Which technologies does AspenTech Corporation patent most?

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

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

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 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

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

F03D - Wind Motors 1

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 1

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

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

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 1

Top 11 of 11 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

AspenTech Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AspenTech Corporation'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), 81.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #17,461 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AspenTech Corporation against Ardea Biosciences, Inc, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.9/100 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

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.