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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Marel A/s ranks #13,543 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 Marel A/s hold?

Marel A/s holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Marel A/s's Innovation Score?

Marel A/s has an Innovation Score of 41.0 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Marel A/s's recent grant velocity is +75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Marel A/s's patents average 16.3 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 Marel 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

Marel A/s

Q: What technology areas does Marel A/s focus on?

Marel A/s's top technology area is B26D (CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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: B26D (CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Marel ranks #13,543 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 15 technology areas.

#13,543
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.0/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13543 · Foreign Corporation #13,543 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,543/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Life360
CPC-FOCUS B26D · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Life360, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Marel A/s · this assignee

41
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Marel A/s stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #13,543 of 50,000; Innovation Score 41.0/100 sits in the top 34% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Life360, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Marel A/s has been granted 22 US utility patents between 2017 and 2024, placing Marel A/s at #13,543 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 15 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 16.3 claims per patent with primary concentration in B26D (CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING). As a Foreign Corporation, Marel A/s is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Marel sits between Life360, Inc. (22 patents, rank #13,536) and Menicon Singapore PTE. Ltd. (22 patents, rank #13,544) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 41.0/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 14 grants, compared with 8 in the 2015–2019 window, a +75% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Marel A/s's 16.3 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 15 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Life360

22
Looking Glass Fac…

22
Luoyang Landglass…

22
M2MD

22
Masontops IP Hold…

22
Matsumoto Yushi-s…

22
Medshape

22
Menicon Singapore…

22
Marel A/S ◀

22

What this shows Marel holds 22 patents at rank #13,540, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Marel

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,540 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B26D (Cutting)

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

Marel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Marel A/s patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	4.5%
2018	5	22.7%
2019	2	9.1%
2020	2	9.1%
2021	4	18.2%
2022	3	13.6%
2023	1	4.5%
2024	4	18.2%

Which technologies does Marel A/s patent most?

B26D - CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING 9

A22C - PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH 8

B65G - TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS 5

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 5

G01G - WEIGHING 4

B65B - MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING 3

B07C - POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING 3

B02C - CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN 2

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 2

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

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

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; SEVERING BY MEANS OTHER THAN CUTTING 1

B23K - SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM 1

B30B - PRESSES IN GENERAL 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,543

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.0 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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