Where does Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap ranks #1,802 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 Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap hold?

Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap holds 226 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 86 technology areas.

What is Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap's Innovation Score?

Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap has an Innovation Score of 58.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap's recent grant velocity is +121% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap's patents?

Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap's patents average 14.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap

Q: What technology areas does Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap focus on?

Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap's top technology area is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps) with 90 patents. Grants appear in 86 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap 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 PatentsView assignee record - 226 granted patents across 86 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: F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Atlas ranks #1,802 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 226 patents across 86 technology areas.

#1,802
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.3/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +121%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1802 · Foreign Corporation #1,802 · 226 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 226 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,802/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Institut Pasteur
CPC-WIDE F04C · 86 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +121% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Institut Pasteur (±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
Atlas Copco… · this assignee

58
Mineral Earth Sciences · near

58
Premium Aerotec · near

58
Ajou University… · near

58
Littelfuse · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Atlas's Innovation Score is 58.3/100 (top 5% 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 Atlas's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap received 139 grants versus 63 in 2015–2019 (+121% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 39 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 6. Lead class F04C accounts for 39.8% of the portfolio across 86 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. (#1,798) and Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH (#1,806).

Atlas's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap moved from 87 to 74 grants (0.85x 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 #1,661. See the growth leaderboard.

Ningbo Sunny Opot…

227
Nasdaq

227
Sharp Display Tec…

227
Western Digital (…

227
Institut Pasteur

226
Parallels Interna…

226
SK Planet

226
Wago Verwaltungsg…

226
Atlas Copco Airpo… ◀

226

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.

Companies ranked near Atlas

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,802 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Premium Aerotec GmbH 58 Mineral Earth Sciences LLC 58 Ajou University Industry-academic Cooperation 58 Littelfuse, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.7 here).

University OF South Carolina 14.7 avg Manitowoc Crane Companies, LLC 14.7 avg Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC 14.7 avg WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc. 14.7 avg

Atlas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap patent grants by year, 2015–2025
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%
2025partial year	24	10.6%

Which technologies does Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 90

B01D - Separation 64

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 50

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 21

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 15

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 14

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 13

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 11

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 10

F16H - Gearing 10

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 8

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 7

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 7

Top 15 of 86 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,802

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.3 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

Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap's lead technology class is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps), 39.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #1,802 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap against Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.3/100 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

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