Overall rank by patents
#1,802
Across all tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 226 granted patents across 86 technology areas, active 2015–2025. Filing-trend and competitive-moat analysis cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search. Primary class: F04C (ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS ; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS).
The verdict
Atlas holds 226 US patents across 86 technology areas, rank #1,802 of 50,000 tracked assignees.
Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap has been granted 226 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap at rank #1,802 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 86 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 14.7 claims per patent with primary concentration in F04C (ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS ; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS). As a Foreign Corporation, Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap is one of the broader-portfolio assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Atlas sits between Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. (227 patents, rank #1,798) and Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH (226 patents, rank #1,806) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 58.3/100 blends portfolio volume, filing velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.
Filing cadence tells the strategic story. Between 2020 and 2025 the company received 163 grants, compared with 63 in the 2015–2019 window, a +159% shift in five-year velocity. An acceleration of this magnitude signals aggressive R&D investment and expanding technical ambition. The Foreign Corporation classification further shapes interpretation, since corporate, government, and individual filers pursue patents for materially different reasons.
Claim depth and technology breadth together indicate competitive posture. Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap's 14.7 average claims per patent sits within the typical range for solid legal coverage without excessive prosecution cost, while a multi-domain presence across 86 subclasses balances depth with breadth. Combined with portfolio volume, these signals let analysts, investors, and licensing professionals benchmark Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap against peers pursuing similar technology classes.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH CO., LTD.
227 patents
Nasdaq, Inc.
227 patents
Sharp Display Technology Corporation
227 patents
WESTERN DIGITAL (FREMONT), LLC
227 patents
INSTITUT PASTEUR
226 patents
Parallels International GmbH
226 patents
SK PLANET CO., LTD.
226 patents
Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH
226 patents
ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
226 patents
What this shows Atlas holds 226 patents at rank #1,802, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #1,802 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in Atlas's primary technology class.
Atlas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, filing velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 50,000 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | 2.7% |
| 2016 | 9 | 4.0% |
| 2017 | 6 | 2.7% |
| 2018 | 20 | 8.8% |
| 2019 | 22 | 9.7% |
| 2020 | 39 | 17.3% |
| 2021 | 26 | 11.5% |
| 2022 | 27 | 11.9% |
| 2023 | 18 | 8.0% |
| 2024 | 29 | 12.8% |
| 2025 | 24 | 10.6% |
Top 15 of 86 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#1,802
Across all tracked assignees
58.3 out of 100
How to use this portfolio
Atlas's 226 grants land it in the top 5% by Innovation Score, but volume alone doesn't tell you where the strength sits.
Patent counts and the Innovation Score measure patenting activity, not commercial success or the legal strength of any patent. Many patents are filed defensively. Verify the status of an individual patent against official USPTO records.
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.