Where does Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. ranks #21,072 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 Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. hold?

Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.2 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc.'s patents?

Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc.'s patents average 20.6 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. focus on?

Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc.'s top technology area is F15B (SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: F15B (SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Emerson ranks #21,072 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 13 technology areas.

#21,072
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.2/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21072 · US Corporation #21,072 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,072/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Emblation
CPC-FOCUS F15B · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Emblation Limited (±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
Emerson Process Mana… · this assignee

39
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Emerson's Innovation Score is 39.2/100 (top 39% 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 Emerson's grants concentrate

Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under F15B (SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Emerson sits between Emblation Limited and Enwave Corporation.

Emblation

13
Embolx

13
Emerson Automatio…

13
Emerson Network P…

13
Emery Allen

13
Emgenisys

13
Empire IP

13
Enwave

13
Emerson Process M… ◀

13

What this shows Emerson holds 13 patents at rank #21,089, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Emerson

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,089 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F15B (Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN General)

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

Emerson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	15.4%
2017	2	15.4%
2018	2	15.4%
2019	1	7.7%
2020	1	7.7%
2021	2	15.4%
2022	2	15.4%
2024	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. patent most?

F15B - SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 9

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 9

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 2

F04B - POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS 2

F16H - GEARING 1

E02F - DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING 1

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 1

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 1

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 1

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,072

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.2 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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