Where does Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB ranks #10,861 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 Rock Drills AB hold?

Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB's Innovation Score?

Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB has an Innovation Score of 39.8 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB's recent grant velocity is -100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB's patents?

Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB's patents average 19.3 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 Rock Drills 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

Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB

Q: What technology areas does Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB focus on?

Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB's top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 15 patents, ranking #241 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Atlas ranks #10,861 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 22 technology areas.

#10,861
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.8/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10861 · Foreign Corporation #10,861 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,861/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aptinyx
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 22 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aptinyx 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 Atlas’s 39.8 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 11.6 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 16.6 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Annex Products PTY · near

40
Grey Orange PTE · near

40
Arashi Vision · near

40
Atlas Copco Rock… · this assignee

40
Nok Nok Labs · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Atlas's Innovation Score is 39.8/100 (top 37% 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 Atlas?

Each dot is one of Atlas’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). Atlas’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Atlas's grants concentrate

Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 53.6% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (9 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2018. By volume, Atlas sits between Aptinyx Inc. and B.G. Negev Technologies AND Applications Ltd..

Aptinyx

28
Ariad Pharmaceuti…

28
Aspen Technology

28
Atlas Copco IAS UK

28
Atos Medical AB

28
Auradine

28
Automatic Switch

28
B G Negev AND App…

28
Atlas Copco Rock… ◀

28

What this shows Atlas holds 28 patents at rank #10,862, 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 #10,862 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Atlas ranks #241 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Nok Nok Labs, Inc. 40 Arashi Vision Inc. 40 Grey Orange PTE. Ltd. 40 Annex Products PTY Ltd 40

Atlas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

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 Rock Drills AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	32.1%
2016	9	32.1%
2017	6	21.4%
2018	4	14.3%

Which technologies does Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 15

B25D - Percussive Tools 10

E21D - SHAFTS; TUNNELS; GALLERIES; Large Underground Chambers 6

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 2

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

B01D - Separation 1

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 1

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 1

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

E21F - Safety Devices, Transport, Filling-up, Rescue, Ventilation, OR Draining IN OR OF Mines OR Tunnels 1

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB's lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 53.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #10,861 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB against Aptinyx Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.8/100 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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