Where does Ober ALP S.P.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ober ALP S.P.A. ranks #20,181 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 Ober ALP S.P.A. hold?

Ober ALP S.P.A. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Ober ALP S.P.A.'s Innovation Score?

Ober ALP S.P.A. has an Innovation Score of 24.2 out of 100 (14th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ober ALP S.P.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ober ALP S.P.A.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Ober ALP S.P.A.'s patents?

Ober ALP S.P.A.'s patents average 7.2 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 Ober ALP S.P.A. 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

Ober ALP S.P.A.

Q: What technology areas does Ober ALP S.P.A. focus on?

Ober ALP S.P.A.'s top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 3 patents, ranking #864 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ober ranks #20,181 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 6 technology areas.

#20,181
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 14th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.2/100): 7.2
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20181 · Foreign Corporation #20,181 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,181/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nuova Ompi S r l
CPC-NARROW H05B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nuova Ompi 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 Ober’s 24.2 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 9.4 pts (39%) Velocity 1.8 pts (7%) Breadth 8.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 4.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ober ALP S P A · this assignee

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ober's Innovation Score is 24.2/100 (14th percentile 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 Ober?

Each dot is one of Ober’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). Ober’s own 7.2 claims/patent is at or below the 9.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ober's grants concentrate

Ober ALP S.P.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 21.4% of grants classified under H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Ober sits between Nuova Ompi S.r.l. and Octopus Energy Heating Limited.

Ober's three-year grant acceleration

Ober ALP S.P.A. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Nuova Ompi S r l

14
O E Wheel Distrib…

14
Oasys Water

14
OAV Equipment AND…

14
Oblamatik

14
Obschestvo S Ogra…

14
Ocean Optics

14
Octopus Energy He…

14
Ober ALP S P A ◀

14

What this shows Ober holds 14 patents at rank #20,179, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ober

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,179 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Ober's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 14th percentile higher than 14% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Ober ALP S.P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	8	57.1%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	2	14.3%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	1	7.1%
2024	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Ober ALP S.P.A. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Ober ALP S.P.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ober ALP S.P.A.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 21.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #20,181 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ober ALP S.P.A. against Nuova Ompi S.r.l., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.2/100 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

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