Where does Astec International Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Astec International Limited ranks #2,482 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 Astec International Limited hold?

Astec International Limited holds 157 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Astec International Limited's Innovation Score?

Astec International Limited has an Innovation Score of 54.7 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 Astec International Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Astec International Limited's recent grant velocity is +72% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Astec International Limited's patents?

Astec International Limited's patents average 18.2 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 Astec International Limited 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

Astec International Limited

Q: What technology areas does Astec International Limited focus on?

Astec International Limited's top technology area is H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof) with 113 patents, ranking #36 of 1,541 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 157 granted patents across 29 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: H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Astec ranks #2,482 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 157 patents across 29 technology areas.

#2,482
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.7/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2482 · Foreign Corporation #2,482 · 157 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 157 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,482/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 2236008 Ontario
CPC-FOCUS H02M · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 2236008 Ontario 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 Astec’s 54.7 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 17.5 pts (32%) Velocity 7.3 pts (13%) Breadth 19.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Astec International · this assignee

55
Howard Hughes… · near

55
BAE Systems Controls · near

55
Elo Touch Solutions · near

55
Wincor Nixdorf… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Astec's Innovation Score is 54.7/100 (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 Astec?

Each dot is one of Astec’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). Astec’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Astec's grants concentrate

Astec International Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 72% of grants classified under H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER;). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (33 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Astec sits between Tadano Ltd. and Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd..

Astec's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Astec International Limited moved from 56 to 61 grants (1.09x 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 #979. See the growth leaderboard.

Tadano

158
Yungu (Gu'an) Tec…

158
Zoom Communicatio…

158
2236008 Ontario

157
Deckers Outdoor

157
Icon Health & Fit…

157
Inter Ikea System…

157
Israel Aerospace…

157
Astec Internation… ◀

157

What this shows Astec holds 157 patents at rank #2,482, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Astec

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,482 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Astec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC), Astec ranks #36 of 1,541 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Howard Hughes Medical Institute 55 Elo Touch Solutions, Inc. 55 Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH 55 BAE Systems Controls Inc. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Flir Systems, Inc. 18.2 avg Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH 18.2 avg Norton (Waterford) Limited 18.2 avg Waymo LLC 18.2 avg

Astec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 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 · 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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Astec International Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	5.7%
2016	3	1.9%
2017	12	7.6%
2018	14	8.9%
2019	19	12.1%
2020	11	7.0%
2021	26	16.6%
2022	18	11.5%
2023	33	21.0%
2024	10	6.4%
2025partial year	2	1.3%

Which technologies does Astec International Limited patent most?

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 113

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 73

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 20

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 19

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 18

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 14

H03K - Pulse Technique 10

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 10

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 6

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 5

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

Top 15 of 29 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

Astec International Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Astec International Limited's lead technology class is H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER;), 72% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02M
Ranked #2,482 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Astec International Limited against Tadano Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.7/100 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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