Where does Sandvik Intellectual Property AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sandvik Intellectual Property AB ranks #962 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 Sandvik Intellectual Property AB hold?

Sandvik Intellectual Property AB holds 458 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 92 technology areas.

What is Sandvik Intellectual Property AB's Innovation Score?

Sandvik Intellectual Property AB has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sandvik Intellectual Property AB focus on?

Sandvik Intellectual Property AB's top technology area is B23B (TURNING; Boring) with 109 patents, ranking #7 of 490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 92 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sandvik Intellectual Property AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sandvik Intellectual Property AB's recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Sandvik Intellectual Property AB's patents?

Sandvik Intellectual Property AB's patents average 13.4 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 Sandvik Intellectual Property 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

Sandvik Intellectual Property AB

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 458 granted patents across 92 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: B23B (TURNING; Boring).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sandvik ranks #962 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 458 patents across 92 technology areas.

#962
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R962 · Foreign Corporation #962 · 458 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 458 grants
TOP-DECILE #962/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Huazhong University…
CPC-WIDE B23B · 92 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Huazhong University of Science and Technology (±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 Sandvik’s 56.6 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 21.2 pts (37%) Velocity 2.4 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hefei Hualing · near

57
PerkinElmer Health… · near

57
Sandvik Intellectual… · this assignee

57
University Of Delaware · near

57
Brainlab · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sandvik's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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 Sandvik?

Each dot is one of Sandvik’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). Sandvik’s own 13.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Sandvik's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sandvik Intellectual Property AB received 164 grants versus 292 in 2015–2019 (-44% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 63 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 5. Lead class B23B accounts for 23.8% of the portfolio across 92 subclasses. Volume neighbours: RIKEN (#958) and Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd. (#966).

Sandvik's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sandvik Intellectual Property AB moved from 165 to 60 grants (0.36x 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 #2,924. See the growth leaderboard.

Riken

461
Cellco Partnership

459
Sumitomo Electric…

459
Huazhong Universi…

458
Sandvik Intellect… ◀

458
ADP

457
Fisher Controls I…

456
Hella & Kgaa

456
Hanwha Techwin

454

What this shows Sandvik holds 458 patents at rank #962, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sandvik

By rank, the assignees closest to #962 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23B (Turning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sandvik, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B23B (Turning), Sandvik ranks #7 of 490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. 57 University Of Delaware 57 Hefei Hualing Co., Ltd. 57 Brainlab AG 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Philip Morris Products S.A. 13.4 avg Dongwoo Fine-chem Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg KIA Corporation 13.4 avg Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 13.4 avg

Sandvik's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Sandvik Intellectual Property AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	62	13.5%
2016	60	13.1%
2017	63	13.8%
2018	46	10.0%
2019	61	13.3%
2020	54	11.8%
2021	50	10.9%
2022	36	7.9%
2023	19	4.1%
2024	5	1.1%
2025partial year	2	0.4%

Which technologies does Sandvik Intellectual Property AB patent most?

B23B - TURNING; Boring 109

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 84

B23C - Milling 81

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 65

C22C - Alloys 57

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 52

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 43

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 30

E21D - SHAFTS; TUNNELS; GALLERIES; Large Underground Chambers 27

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 25

B23F - Making Gears OR Toothed Racks 17

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 17

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 16

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 15

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 12

Top 15 of 92 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

Sandvik Intellectual Property AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sandvik Intellectual Property AB's lead technology class is B23B (TURNING; Boring), 23.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23B
Ranked #962 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sandvik Intellectual Property AB against RIKEN, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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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