Where does Danfoss Drives A/s rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Danfoss Drives A/s ranks #26,100 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Danfoss Drives A/s hold?

Danfoss Drives A/s holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2019, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Danfoss Drives A/s's Innovation Score?

Danfoss Drives A/s has an Innovation Score of 27.8 out of 100 (top 75% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Danfoss Drives A/s focus on?

Danfoss Drives A/s's top technology area is F04B (POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Danfoss Drives A/s's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Danfoss Drives A/s'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 Danfoss Drives A/s's patents?

Danfoss Drives A/s's patents average 15.9 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 Danfoss Drives A/s 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

Danfoss Drives A/s

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2019. 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: F04B (POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Danfoss ranks #26,100 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 8 technology areas.

#26,100
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 75%
by Innovation Score (27.8/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26100 · Foreign Corporation #26,100 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,100/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Dalian Maritime Univ…
CPC-NARROW F04B · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dalian Maritime University (±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
Danfoss Drives A/s · this assignee

28
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Danfoss's Innovation Score is 27.8/100 (top 75% 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 Danfoss's grants concentrate

Danfoss Drives A/s is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under F04B (POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Danfoss sits between Dalian Maritime University and Daymen US, Inc..

Dalian Maritime U…

10
Dana Industries

10
Danaher (Shanghai…

10
Danapak Flexibles…

10
Datashapes

10
Datalogic Automat…

10
Datorama

10
Daymen US

10
Danfoss Drives A/S ◀

10

What this shows Danfoss holds 10 patents at rank #26,137, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Danfoss

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,137 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids)

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

Danfoss's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 Top 75% higher than 25% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Danfoss Drives A/s patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	8	80.0%
2018	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Danfoss Drives A/s patent most?

F04B - POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS 7

F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS 7

H02P - CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS 3

E04H - BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL 3

H02H - EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS 1

F05D - INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS 1

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#26,100

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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