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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Maersk A/S ranks #41,533 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 Maersk A/S hold?

Maersk A/S holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Maersk A/S's Innovation Score?

Maersk A/S has an Innovation Score of 45.7 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Maersk A/S focus on?

Maersk A/S's top technology area is F02B (Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General) with 3 patents, ranking #210 of 496 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Maersk A/S.

What does claim depth mean for Maersk A/S's patents?

Maersk A/S's patents average 14.0 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 Maersk 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

Maersk A/S

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: F02B (Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Maersk ranks #41,533 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 9 technology areas.

#41,533
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.7/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41533 · Foreign Corporation #41,533 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,533/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Macchiavelli S R L
CPC-NARROW F02B · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Macchiavelli S.R.L. (±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 Maersk’s 45.7 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 6.7 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (44%) Breadth 10.6 pts (23%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Maersk A/S · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Maersk's Innovation Score is 45.7/100 (top 22% 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 Maersk?

Each dot is one of Maersk’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). Maersk’s own 14.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Maersk's grants concentrate

Maersk A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under F02B (Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Maersk sits between Mytee Products Inc. and Magic Tap, LLC.

Maersk's three-year grant acceleration

Maersk A/S shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Mytee Products

6
Maclean Power L L…

6
Macchiavelli S R L

6
Machbase

6
Maersk Line A/S

6
Magwerks Vision

6
Magiq

6
Magic Tap

6
Maersk A/S ◀

6

What this shows Maersk holds 6 patents at rank #41,669, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Maersk

By rank, the assignees closest to #41,669 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02B (Internal-combustion Piston Engines)

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

Maersk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Maersk A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	16.7%
2024	3	50.0%
2025partial year	2	33.3%

Which technologies does Maersk A/S patent most?

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 1

F16N - Lubricating 1

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

Top 9 of 9 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

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

Maersk A/S's lead technology class is F02B (Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02B
Ranked #41,533 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Maersk A/S against Mytee Products Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.7/100 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

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