Where does Atop S.p.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Atop S.p.A. ranks #8,329 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 Atop S.p.A. hold?

Atop S.p.A. holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Atop S.p.A.'s Innovation Score?

Atop S.p.A. has an Innovation Score of 40.2 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Atop S.p.A. focus on?

Atop S.p.A.'s top technology area is H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines) with 35 patents, ranking #81 of 1,724 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Atop S.p.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Atop S.p.A.'s recent grant velocity is -30% 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 Atop S.p.A.'s patents?

Atop S.p.A.'s patents average 14.1 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 Atop S.p.A. 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

Atop S.p.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 16 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: H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Atop ranks #8,329 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 16 technology areas.

#8,329
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.2/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8329 · Foreign Corporation #8,329 · 38 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,329/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abbvie Biotherapeutics
CPC-FOCUS H02K · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abbvie Biotherapeutics 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 Atop’s 40.2 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 12.7 pts (32%) Velocity 5.0 pts (12%) Breadth 14.1 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Atop S p A · this assignee

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Federal-Mogul… · near

40
Fidia Farmaceutici… · near

40
Grace Engineering · near

40
J J Mackay Canada · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Atop's Innovation Score is 40.2/100 (top 36% 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 Atop?

Each dot is one of Atop’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). Atop’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Atop's grants concentrate

Atop S.p.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 92.1% of grants classified under H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Atop sits between Abbvie Biotherapeutics Inc. and Anest Iwata Corporation.

Atop's three-year grant acceleration

Atop S.p.A. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Abbvie Biotherape…

38
ADC Czech Republi…

38
Aker Biomarine An…

38
API

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ATT Southern

38
Auctane

38
All Purpose Netwo…

38
Anest Iwata

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Atop S p A ◀

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What this shows Atop holds 38 patents at rank #8,325, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Atop

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,325 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Atop, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines), Atop ranks #81 of 1,724 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Fidia Farmaceutici S.p.A. 40 Grace Engineering Corp. 40 J.J. Mackay Canada Limited 40 Federal-Mogul Wiesbaden GmbH 40

Atop's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% 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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Atop S.p.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.6%
2016	6	15.8%
2017	4	10.5%
2018	2	5.3%
2019	7	18.4%
2020	3	7.9%
2021	2	5.3%
2022	3	7.9%
2023	3	7.9%
2024	3	7.9%
2025partial year	4	10.5%

Which technologies does Atop S.p.A. patent most?

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 35

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 22

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 3

B30B - Presses IN General 2

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

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

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 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

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 1

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Atop S.p.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Atop S.p.A.'s lead technology class is H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines), 92.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02K
Ranked #8,329 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Atop S.p.A. against Abbvie Biotherapeutics Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.2/100 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.