Where does Assa Abloy AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Assa Abloy AB ranks #1,056 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 Assa Abloy AB hold?

Assa Abloy AB holds 408 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 74 technology areas.

What is Assa Abloy AB's Innovation Score?

Assa Abloy AB has an Innovation Score of 63.6 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Assa Abloy AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Assa Abloy AB's recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Assa Abloy AB's patents?

Assa Abloy AB's patents average 17.0 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 Assa Abloy AB 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 Foreign Corporation

Assa Abloy AB

Q: What technology areas does Assa Abloy AB focus on?

Assa Abloy AB's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 174 patents. Grants appear in 74 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 408 granted patents across 74 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Assa ranks #1,056 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 408 patents across 74 technology areas.

#1,056
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.6/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1056 · Foreign Corporation #1,056 · 408 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 408 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,056/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fluke
CPC-WIDE H04L · 74 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fluke 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
Assa Abloy AB · this assignee

64
Avery Dennison · near

64
Boehringer Ingelheim… · near

64
Maxell · near

64
Yeda Research AND… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Assa's Innovation Score is 63.6/100 (top 2% 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.

How Assa's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Assa Abloy AB received 213 grants versus 160 in 2015–2019 (+33% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 55 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 18. Lead class H04L accounts for 42.6% of the portfolio across 74 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (#1,052) and National Cheng Kung University (#1,060).

Assa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Assa Abloy AB moved from 120 to 137 grants (1.14x 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 #886. See the growth leaderboard.

Asahi Glass

411
Gigaphoton

411
Seoul Semiconduct…

410
The Broad Institu…

410
Fluke

408
Assa Abloy AB ◀

408
Brainlab

407
Electrolux Applia…

407
National Cheng Ku…

407

What this shows Assa holds 408 patents at rank #1,056, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Assa

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,056 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Yeda Research AND Development Co. Ltd. 64 Avery Dennison Corporation 64 Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH 64 Maxell, Ltd. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC 17.0 avg Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 17.0 avg University of Notre Dame du Lac 17.0 avg RTC Industries, Inc. 17.0 avg

Assa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Assa Abloy AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	5.1%
2016	18	4.4%
2017	45	11.0%
2018	32	7.8%
2019	44	10.8%
2020	44	10.8%
2021	32	7.8%
2022	51	12.5%
2023	31	7.6%
2024	55	13.5%
2025partial year	35	8.6%

Which technologies does Assa Abloy AB patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 174

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 172

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 139

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 115

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 53

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 38

H04B - Transmission 32

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 32

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 27

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 25

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 24

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 22

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 19

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 17

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 16

Top 15 of 74 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,056

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

63.6 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

Assa Abloy AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Assa Abloy AB's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 42.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,056 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Assa Abloy AB against Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.6/100 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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