Where does DeLaval Holding AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DeLaval Holding AB ranks #2,265 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 DeLaval Holding AB hold?

DeLaval Holding AB holds 173 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is DeLaval Holding AB's Innovation Score?

DeLaval Holding AB has an Innovation Score of 64.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does DeLaval Holding AB focus on?

DeLaval Holding AB's top technology area is A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products) with 106 patents, ranking #2 of 41 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

Is DeLaval Holding AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

DeLaval Holding AB's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 DeLaval Holding AB's patents?

DeLaval Holding AB's patents average 17.7 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.

How is the DeLaval Holding 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

DeLaval Holding AB

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 173 granted patents across 59 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: A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Delaval ranks #2,265 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 173 patents across 59 technology areas.

#2,265
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.8/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2265 · Foreign Corporation #2,265 · 173 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 173 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,265/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bard Access Systems
CPC-WIDE A01J · 59 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bard Access Systems, 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 Delaval’s 64.8 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 17.8 pts (27%) Velocity 11.4 pts (18%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Schott · near

65
DOW Global · near

65
DeLaval Holding AB · this assignee

65
thyssenkrupp Uhde · near

65
Xtpl · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Delaval's Innovation Score is 64.8/100 (top 1% 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 Delaval?

Each dot is one of Delaval’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). Delaval’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Delaval's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, DeLaval Holding AB received 69 grants versus 88 in 2015–2019 (-22% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 30 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 6. Lead class A01J accounts for 61.3% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bard Access Systems, Inc. (#2,261) and Ossia Inc. (#2,269).

Delaval's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, DeLaval Holding AB moved from 31 to 53 grants (1.71x 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 #310. See the growth leaderboard.

Bard Access Syste…

173
Beckhoff Automati…

173
Bell Sports

173
Berry Plastics

173
Edwards

173
General Interface…

173
Luxtera

173
Ossia

173
Delaval Holding AB ◀

173

What this shows DeLaval holds 173 patents at rank #2,265, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DeLaval

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,265 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for DeLaval, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products), DeLaval ranks #2 of 41 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH 65 DOW Global Technologies LLC 65 Xtpl S.A. 65 Schott AG 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Cubic Corporation 17.7 avg Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.A.R.L. 17.7 avg Utah State University 17.7 avg CommScope Connectivity Belgium Bvba 17.7 avg

Delaval's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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DeLaval Holding AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	5.2%
2016	18	10.4%
2017	30	17.3%
2018	16	9.2%
2019	15	8.7%
2020	10	5.8%
2021	6	3.5%
2022	20	11.6%
2023	23	13.3%
2024	10	5.8%
2025partial year	16	9.2%

Which technologies does DeLaval Holding AB patent most?

A01J - Manufacture OF Dairy Products 106

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 82

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 15

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 5

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 4

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

Top 15 of 59 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

DeLaval Holding AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

DeLaval Holding AB's lead technology class is A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products), 61.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01J
Ranked #2,265 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare DeLaval Holding AB against Bard Access Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.8/100 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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