Where does Scania CV AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Scania CV AB ranks #1,039 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 Scania CV AB hold?

Scania CV AB holds 420 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 109 technology areas.

What is Scania CV AB's Innovation Score?

Scania CV AB has an Innovation Score of 60.1 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 Scania CV AB focus on?

Scania CV AB's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 230 patents, ranking #47 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 109 CPC subclasses total.

Is Scania CV AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Scania CV AB's recent grant velocity is -16% 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 Scania CV AB's patents?

Scania CV AB's patents average 16.9 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 Scania CV 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

Scania CV AB

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 420 granted patents across 109 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Scania ranks #1,039 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 420 patents across 109 technology areas.

#1,039
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.1/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1039 · Foreign Corporation #1,039 · 420 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 420 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,039/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Depuy Ireland…
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 109 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Depuy Ireland Unlimited Company (±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 Scania’s 60.1 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 20.9 pts (35%) Velocity 4.1 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Essity Hygiene AND… · near

60
Freeescale Semicondu… · near

60
Scania CV AB · this assignee

60
Brown University · near

60
Screen Holdings · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Scania's Innovation Score is 60.1/100 (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 Scania?

Each dot is one of Scania’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). Scania’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Scania's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Scania CV AB received 182 grants versus 217 in 2015–2019 (-16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 54 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 20. Lead class Y02T accounts for 54.8% of the portfolio across 109 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Advics Co., Ltd. (#1,035) and Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. (#1,043).

Scania's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Scania CV AB moved from 143 to 88 grants (0.61x 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 #2,411. See the growth leaderboard.

Advics

421
GN Hearing A/S

421
Worldpay

421
Depuy Ireland Unl…

420
Scania CV AB ◀

420
Varian Medical Sy…

419
Postech Academy-i…

418
KHS

417
Mitsumi Electric

417

What this shows Scania holds 420 patents at rank #1,039, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Scania

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,039 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Scania, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Scania ranks #47 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Freeescale Semiconductor, Inc. 60 Essity Hygiene AND Health Aktiebolag 60 Screen Holdings Co., Ltd. 60 Brown University 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

DOW Agrosciences LLC 16.9 avg Flipboard, Inc. 16.9 avg Ion Beam Applications 16.9 avg HangZhou HaiCun Information Technology Co., Ltd. 16.9 avg

Scania's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Scania CV AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	44	10.5%
2016	44	10.5%
2017	31	7.4%
2018	49	11.7%
2019	49	11.7%
2020	54	12.9%
2021	40	9.5%
2022	20	4.8%
2023	43	10.2%
2024	25	6.0%
2025partial year	21	5.0%

Which technologies does Scania CV AB patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 230

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 165

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 115

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 94

F16H - Gearing 92

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 81

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 76

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 63

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 55

B01D - Separation 33

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 27

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 26

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 23

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 20

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 19

Top 15 of 109 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

Scania CV AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Scania CV AB's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 54.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #1,039 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Scania CV AB against Advics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.1/100 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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