Where does FLSmidth A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FLSmidth A/S ranks #3,915 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 FLSmidth A/S hold?

FLSmidth A/S holds 92 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 62 technology areas.

What is FLSmidth A/S's Innovation Score?

FLSmidth A/S has an Innovation Score of 51.8 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does FLSmidth A/S focus on?

FLSmidth A/S's top technology area is B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain) with 20 patents, ranking #9 of 384 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 62 CPC subclasses total.

Is FLSmidth A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FLSmidth A/S's recent grant velocity is -24% 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 FLSmidth A/S's patents?

FLSmidth A/S's patents average 12.1 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 FLSmidth 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

FLSmidth A/S

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 92 granted patents across 62 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: B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Flsmidth ranks #3,915 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 92 patents across 62 technology areas.

#3,915
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3915 · Foreign Corporation #3,915 · 92 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 92 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,915/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Databricks
CPC-WIDE B02C · 62 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Databricks, 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 Flsmidth’s 51.8 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 15.7 pts (30%) Velocity 3.9 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FLSmidth A/S · this assignee

52
Helmholtz-zentrum… · near

52
Riot Games · near

52
Simpson Strong-Tie · near

52
Targus International · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Flsmidth's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (top 11% 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 Flsmidth?

Each dot is one of Flsmidth’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). Flsmidth’s own 12.1 claims/patent is at or below the 13.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Flsmidth's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, FLSmidth A/S received 39 grants versus 51 in 2015–2019 (-24% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 13 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 5. Lead class B02C accounts for 21.7% of the portfolio across 62 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Databricks, Inc. (#3,911) and Hill Phoenix, Inc. (#3,919).

Flsmidth's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, FLSmidth A/S moved from 31 to 18 grants (0.58x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Databricks

92
Doordash

92
Elsner Pac Jungpf…

92
Essenlix

92
France Telecom

92
Fujitsu Frontech

92
Hamm

92
Hill Phoenix

92
Flsmidth A/S ◀

92

What this shows FLSmidth holds 92 patents at rank #3,915, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FLSmidth

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,915 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B02C (Crushing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FLSmidth, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B02C (Crushing), FLSmidth ranks #9 of 384 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. 52 Targus International LLC 52 Riot Games, Inc. 52 Helmholtz-zentrum Dresden-rossendorf E.V. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.1 here).

WCM Industries, Inc. 12.1 avg Ecovacs Robotics Co., Ltd. 12.1 avg Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation 12.1 avg Roland Corporation 12.1 avg

Flsmidth's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

FLSmidth A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	7.6%
2016	12	13.0%
2017	13	14.1%
2018	9	9.8%
2019	10	10.9%
2020	11	12.0%
2021	10	10.9%
2022	5	5.4%
2023	5	5.4%
2024	8	8.7%
2025partial year	2	2.2%

Which technologies does FLSmidth A/S patent most?

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 20

B01D - Separation 17

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 11

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 7

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 7

B03B - Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids OR Using Pneumatic Tables OR Jigs 6

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 6

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 4

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 4

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 4

F16H - Gearing 4

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 4

Top 15 of 62 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

FLSmidth A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FLSmidth A/S's lead technology class is B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain), 21.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B02C
Ranked #3,915 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FLSmidth A/S against Databricks, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 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

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.