Where does Lely Patent N.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lely Patent N.V. ranks #2,487 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 Lely Patent N.V. hold?

Lely Patent N.V. holds 157 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 61 technology areas.

What is Lely Patent N.V.'s Innovation Score?

Lely Patent N.V. has an Innovation Score of 57.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lely Patent N.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lely Patent N.V.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Lely Patent N.V.'s patents?

Lely Patent N.V.'s patents average 17.1 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 Lely Patent N.V. 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

Lely Patent N.V.

Q: What technology areas does Lely Patent N.V. focus on?

Lely Patent N.V.'s top technology area is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals) with 85 patents, ranking #6 of 1,035 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 61 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 157 granted patents across 61 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: A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lely ranks #2,487 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 157 patents across 61 technology areas.

#2,487
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.1/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2487 · Foreign Corporation #2,487 · 157 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 157 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,487/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Deckers Outdoor
CPC-WIDE A01K · 61 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Deckers Outdoor Corporation (±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 Lely’s 57.1 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 17.5 pts (31%) Velocity 4.3 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ebm-papst St… · near

57
Garmin International · near

57
Lely Patent · this assignee

57
Ocient Holdings · near

57
Sanyo Chemical… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lely's Innovation Score is 57.1/100 (top 5% 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 Lely?

Each dot is one of Lely’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). Lely’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Lely's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lely Patent N.V. received 57 grants versus 80 in 2015–2019 (-29% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 21 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 4. Lead class A01K accounts for 54.1% of the portfolio across 61 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Deckers Outdoor Corporation (#2,483) and Space Systems/Loral, LLC (#2,491).

Lely's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lely Patent N.V. moved from 43 to 28 grants (0.65x 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 #2,312. See the growth leaderboard.

Deckers Outdoor

157
Icon Health & Fit…

157
Inter Ikea System…

157
Israel Aerospace…

157
National Institut…

157
Paragon 28

157
Snaptrack

157
Space Systems/Lor…

157
Lely Patent ◀

157

What this shows Lely holds 157 patents at rank #2,487, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lely

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,487 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01K (Animal Husbandry)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lely, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01K (Animal Husbandry), Lely ranks #6 of 1,035 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Ocient Holdings LLC 57 Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd. 57 Garmin International, Inc. 57 ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Lonza Ltd 17.1 avg Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH 17.1 avg Cummins IP, Inc. 17.1 avg The University Court of the University of Glasgow 17.1 avg

Lely's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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.

View data table

Lely Patent N.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	12.1%
2016	12	7.6%
2017	18	11.5%
2018	17	10.8%
2019	14	8.9%
2020	21	13.4%
2021	8	5.1%
2022	12	7.6%
2023	4	2.5%
2024	12	7.6%
2025partial year	20	12.7%

Which technologies does Lely Patent N.V. patent most?

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 85

A01J - Manufacture OF Dairy Products 77

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

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 14

A01F - Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce 14

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 10

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 9

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 8

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

A61D - Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, OR Methods 5

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 4

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 4

Top 15 of 61 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Lely Patent N.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lely Patent N.V.'s lead technology class is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals), 54.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01K
Ranked #2,487 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lely Patent N.V. against Deckers Outdoor Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.1/100 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.