Where does SAF-Holland, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SAF-Holland, Inc. ranks #1,971 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 SAF-Holland, Inc. hold?

SAF-Holland, Inc. holds 204 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 52 technology areas.

What is SAF-Holland, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

SAF-Holland, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.4 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does SAF-Holland, Inc. focus on?

SAF-Holland, Inc.'s top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 66 patents, ranking #55 of 1,368 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 52 CPC subclasses total.

Is SAF-Holland, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SAF-Holland, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +3% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for SAF-Holland, Inc.'s patents?

SAF-Holland, Inc.'s patents average 18.8 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 SAF-Holland, Inc. 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 US Corporation

SAF-Holland, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 204 granted patents across 52 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Saf-holland ranks #1,971 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 204 patents across 52 technology areas.

#1,971
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: +3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1971 · US Corporation #1,971 · 204 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 204 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,971/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH HeartWare
CPC-WIDE B62D · 52 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: HeartWare, 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.

How Saf-holland’s 61.4 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 18.4 pts (30%) Velocity 6.7 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Evoqua Water · near

61
Carl Zeiss SMS · near

61
Epistar · near

61
SAF-Holland · this assignee

61
Zhejiang Sanhua… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Saf-holland's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (top 3% 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 Saf-holland?

Each dot is one of Saf-holland’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). Saf-holland’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Saf-holland's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, SAF-Holland, Inc. received 97 grants versus 94 in 2015–2019 (+3% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 24 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 16. Lead class B62D accounts for 32.4% of the portfolio across 52 subclasses. Volume neighbours: HeartWare, Inc. (#1,967) and Carbon, Inc. (#1,975).

Saf-holland's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SAF-Holland, Inc. moved from 58 to 58 grants (1.00x 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 #1,185. See the growth leaderboard.

Heartware

204
Kateeva

204
Lummus Technology

204
Netgear

204
The Noco

204
Watlow Electric M…

204
Saf-holland ◀

204
Albert Einstein C…

203
Carbon

203

What this shows SAF-Holland holds 204 patents at rank #1,971, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SAF-Holland

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,971 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in SAF-Holland's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SAF-Holland, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B62D (Motor Vehicles), SAF-Holland ranks #55 of 1,368 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Epistar Corporation 61 Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls Co., Ltd 61 Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd. 61 Evoqua Water Technologies LLC 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. 18.8 avg Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. 18.8 avg The University Of Queensland 18.8 avg Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. 18.8 avg

Saf-holland's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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SAF-Holland, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	7.8%
2016	19	9.3%
2017	19	9.3%
2018	21	10.3%
2019	19	9.3%
2020	19	9.3%
2021	20	9.8%
2022	24	11.8%
2023	18	8.8%
2024	16	7.8%
2025partial year	13	6.4%

Which technologies does SAF-Holland, Inc. patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 66

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 59

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 40

B60D - Vehicle Connections 36

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 35

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 18

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 13

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 12

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 11

F16H - Gearing 8

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 7

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 6

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 5

Top 15 of 52 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

SAF-Holland, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SAF-Holland, Inc.'s lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 32.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #1,971 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SAF-Holland, Inc. against HeartWare, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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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