Where does Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited ranks #10,860 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 IAS UK Limited hold?

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited's Innovation Score?

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited has an Innovation Score of 42.3 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited's recent grant velocity is +733% 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 IAS UK Limited's patents?

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited's patents average 16.5 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 Atlas Copco IAS UK 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

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited

Q: What technology areas does Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited focus on?

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited's top technology area is B21J (FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces) with 21 patents. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: B21J (FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Atlas ranks #10,860 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 18 technology areas.

#10,860
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.3/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +733%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10860 · Foreign Corporation #10,860 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,860/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Apothecary Products
CPC-FOCUS B21J · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +733% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Apothecary Products, LLC (±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 IAS UK · this assignee

42
Bluescope Steel · near

42
Fractal Heatsink · near

42
Lockheed Martin Energy · near

42
Wuxi Xivi Science… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Atlas's Innovation Score is 42.3/100 (top 31% 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.

Where Atlas's grants concentrate

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under B21J (FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Atlas sits between Apothecary Products, LLC and Automatic Switch Company.

Atlas's three-year grant acceleration

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Apothecary Produc…

28
Aptinyx

28
Ariad Pharmaceuti…

28
Aspen Technology

28
Atlas Copco Rock…

28
Atos Medical AB

28
Auradine

28
Automatic Switch

28
Atlas Copco IAS UK ◀

28

What this shows Atlas holds 28 patents at rank #10,861, 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 #10,861 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21J (Forging)

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 (42 here).

Bluescope Steel Limited 42 Lockheed Martin Energy, LLC 42 Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC 42 Wuxi Xivi Science AND Technology Co., Ltd. 42

Atlas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	10.7%
2020	8	28.6%
2021	4	14.3%
2022	4	14.3%
2023	7	25.0%
2024	2	7.1%

Which technologies does Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited patent most?

B21J - FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces 21

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 11

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 8

F16H - Gearing 7

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

B21K - Making Forged OR Pressed Metal Products, e.g. Horse-shoes, Rivets, Bolts OR Wheels 1

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#10,860

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.3 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 IAS UK Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited's lead technology class is B21J (FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21J
Ranked #10,860 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited against Apothecary Products, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.3/100 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

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.