Where does Kverneland A/s rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kverneland A/s ranks #22,878 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 Kverneland A/s hold?

Kverneland A/s holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Kverneland A/s's Innovation Score?

Kverneland A/s has an Innovation Score of 27.4 out of 100 (top 76% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kverneland A/s focus on?

Kverneland A/s's top technology area is A01C (PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

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

Kverneland A/s's recent grant velocity is -67% 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 Kverneland A/s's patents?

Kverneland A/s's patents average 12.8 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 Kverneland 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

Kverneland A/s

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: A01C (PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kverneland ranks #22,878 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 6 technology areas.

#22,878
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 76%
by Innovation Score (27.4/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22878 · Foreign Corporation #22,878 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,878/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Koninklijke Fabriek…
CPC-NARROW A01C · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Koninklijke Fabriek Inventum B.v. (±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
Axopar Holdings Oy · near

27
Endoevolution · near

27
Auxora (shenzhen) · near

27
Kverneland A/s · this assignee

27
Zwilling J a Henckels · near

27
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Kverneland's Innovation Score is 27.4/100 (top 76% 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 Kverneland's grants concentrate

Kverneland A/s is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under A01C (PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Kverneland sits between Koninklijke Fabriek Inventum B.v. and Lander Enterprises, Llc.

Koninklijke Fabri…

12
Kooima

12
Korex Canada

12
Krausz Industries

12
L-3 Communication…

12
L-3 Communication…

12
L3harris Global C…

12
Lander Enterprises

12
Kverneland A/S ◀

12

What this shows Kverneland holds 12 patents at rank #22,872, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kverneland

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,872 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01C (Planting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kverneland, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (27 here).

Auxora (shenzhen) Inc. 27 Zwilling J.a. Henckels Ag 27 Axopar Holdings Oy 27 Endoevolution, Llc 27

Kverneland's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 Top 76% higher than 24% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kverneland A/s patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	1	8.3%
2017	5	41.7%
2018	1	8.3%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	1	8.3%
2022	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Kverneland A/s patent most?

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING 9

A01D - HARVESTING; MOWING 1

H02K - DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES 1

G01M - TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

A01F - PROCESSING OF HARVESTED PRODUCE; HAY OR STRAW PRESSES; DEVICES FOR STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE 1

A01B - SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,878

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.4 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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