Where does Orbital Systems AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orbital Systems AB ranks #15,516 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 Orbital Systems AB hold?

Orbital Systems AB holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Orbital Systems AB's Innovation Score?

Orbital Systems AB has an Innovation Score of 35.8 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Orbital Systems AB focus on?

Orbital Systems AB's top technology area is E03B (Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water) with 15 patents, ranking #7 of 195 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Orbital Systems AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Orbital Systems AB's recent grant velocity is +250% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Orbital Systems AB's patents?

Orbital Systems AB's patents average 11.5 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 Orbital Systems AB 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

Orbital Systems AB

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 13 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: E03B (Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Orbital ranks #15,516 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 13 technology areas.

#15,516
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.8/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: +250%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15516 · Foreign Corporation #15,516 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,516/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oakthrift
CPC-FOCUS E03B · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +250% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oakthrift Corporation Ltd. (±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 Orbital’s 35.8 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 10.3 pts (29%) Velocity 5.8 pts (16%) Breadth 12.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Orbital Systems AB · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orbital's Innovation Score is 35.8/100 (top 48% 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 Orbital?

Each dot is one of Orbital’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). Orbital’s own 11.5 claims/patent is at or below the 12.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Orbital's grants concentrate

Orbital Systems AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 78.9% of grants classified under E03B (Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Orbital sits between Openpath Security Inc. and Pair Eyewear, Inc..

Orbital's three-year grant acceleration

Orbital Systems AB shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Openpath Security

19
Otto-von-guericke…

19
Oakthrift

19
Open Space Labs

19
Orthogrid Systems

19
Owl Computing

19
Pacid

19
Pair Eyewear

19
Orbital Systems AB ◀

19

What this shows Orbital holds 19 patents at rank #15,514, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orbital

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,514 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E03B (Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining)

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

Orbital's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% 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.

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Orbital Systems AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.3%
2018	2	10.5%
2019	1	5.3%
2020	2	10.5%
2021	5	26.3%
2022	2	10.5%
2023	1	5.3%
2024	4	21.1%
2025partial year	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Orbital Systems AB patent most?

E03B - Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water 15

E03C - Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks 14

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 13

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 9

F24D - Domestic- OR Space-heating Systems, e.g. Central Heating SYSTEMS; Domestic Hot-water Supply SYSTEMS; Elements OR Components Therefor 3

A47K - Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories 3

B01D - Separation 3

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 3

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 2

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 2

E03F - SEWERS; Cesspools 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Orbital Systems AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orbital Systems AB's lead technology class is E03B (Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water), 78.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E03B
Ranked #15,516 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orbital Systems AB against Openpath Security Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.8/100 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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