Where does Delavan Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Delavan Inc. ranks #2,179 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 Delavan Inc. hold?

Delavan Inc. holds 180 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 70 technology areas.

What is Delavan Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Delavan Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.6 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Delavan Inc. focus on?

Delavan Inc.'s top technology area is F23R (Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers) with 100 patents, ranking #7 of 101 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 70 CPC subclasses total.

Is Delavan Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Delavan Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +3% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Delavan Inc.'s patents?

Delavan Inc.'s patents average 13.1 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 Delavan Inc. 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 US Corporation

Delavan Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 180 granted patents across 70 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: F23R (Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Delavan ranks #2,179 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 180 patents across 70 technology areas.

#2,179
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: +3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2179 · US Corporation #2,179 · 180 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 180 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,179/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 3shape A/S
CPC-WIDE F23R · 70 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 3shape A/S (±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 Delavan’s 52.6 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 18.0 pts (34%) Velocity 1.8 pts (3%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Delavan · this assignee

53
Robert Bosch Tool · near

53
Securus · near

53
Widex A/S · near

53
M-I L L C · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Delavan's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (top 10% 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 Delavan?

Each dot is one of Delavan’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). Delavan’s own 13.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Delavan's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Delavan Inc. received 91 grants versus 88 in 2015–2019 (+3% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 34 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 3. Lead class F23R accounts for 55.6% of the portfolio across 70 subclasses. Volume neighbours: 3shape A/S (#2,177) and Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (#2,185).

Delavan's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Delavan Inc. moved from 95 to 26 grants (0.27x 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 #3,025. See the growth leaderboard.

3shape A/S

180
Bomag

180
Dowa Materials

180
DRÄGER Safety & K…

180
Giesecke+Devrient…

180
Maplebear

180
Nipro

180
Olympus Medical S…

180
Delavan ◀

180

What this shows Delavan holds 180 patents at rank #2,181, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Delavan

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,181 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F23R (Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High V…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Delavan, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F23R (Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High V…), Delavan ranks #7 of 101 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Widex A/S 53 Securus Technologies, LLC 53 Robert Bosch Tool Corporation 53 M-I L.L.C. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Shanghai Institute OF Materia Medica, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 13.1 avg Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy 13.1 avg Zodiac Aerotechnics 13.1 avg Withings 13.1 avg

Delavan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Delavan Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	4.4%
2016	9	5.0%
2017	20	11.1%
2018	21	11.7%
2019	30	16.7%
2020	31	17.2%
2021	34	18.9%
2022	17	9.4%
2023	6	3.3%
2024	3	1.7%
2025partial year	1	0.6%

Which technologies does Delavan Inc. patent most?

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 100

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 77

F23D - Burners 62

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 55

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 38

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 26

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 26

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 24

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 22

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 17

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 14

F23N - Regulating OR Controlling Combustion 10

F23K - Feeding Fuel TO Combustion Apparatus 10

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 10

Top 15 of 70 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

Delavan Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Delavan Inc.'s lead technology class is F23R (Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F23R
Ranked #2,179 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Delavan Inc. against 3shape A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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.

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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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