Where does Superior Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Superior Industries, Inc. ranks #5,248 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 Superior Industries, Inc. hold?

Superior Industries, Inc. holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Superior Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Superior Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.1 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Superior Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Superior Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Superior Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Superior Industries, Inc.'s patents average 17.3 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 Superior Industries, 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

Superior Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Superior Industries, Inc. focus on?

Superior Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 33 patents, ranking #47 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 21 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Superior ranks #5,248 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 21 technology areas.

#5,248
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.1/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5248 · US Corporation #5,248 · 66 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,248/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Röchling Automotive…
CPC-FOCUS B65G · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG (±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 Superior’s 46.1 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 14.5 pts (31%) Velocity 5.0 pts (11%) Breadth 16.2 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
D2S · near

46
Polygroup Macau (BVI) · near

46
Sapien Semiconductors · near

46
Superior Industries · this assignee

46
Trisa Holding · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Superior's Innovation Score is 46.1/100 (top 22% 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 Superior?

Each dot is one of Superior’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). Superior’s own 17.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Superior's grants concentrate

Superior Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Superior sits between Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG and Takeda Vaccines, Inc..

Superior's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Superior Industries, Inc. moved from 32 to 24 grants (0.75x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Röchling Automoti…

66
Silver Spring Net…

66
Sorin Group Itali…

66
Spraying Systems

66
Tekelec

66
TPK Advanced Solu…

66
Trek Bicycle

66
Takeda Vaccines

66
Superior Industri… ◀

66

What this shows Superior holds 66 patents at rank #5,248, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Superior

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,248 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Superior, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices), Superior ranks #47 of 1,746 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

D2S, Inc. 46 Polygroup Macau Limited (BVI) 46 Trisa Holding AG 46 Sapien Semiconductors Inc. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.3 here).

Cabot Microelectronics Corporation 17.3 avg Wyeth, LLC 17.3 avg Convida Wireless, LLC 17.3 avg Schlumberger Technology Corporation 17.3 avg

Superior's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Superior Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.5%
2017	4	6.1%
2018	3	4.5%
2019	8	12.1%
2020	13	19.7%
2021	11	16.7%
2022	9	13.6%
2023	7	10.6%
2024	8	12.1%
2025partial year	2	3.0%

Which technologies does Superior Industries, Inc. patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 33

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 16

B03B - Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids OR Using Pneumatic Tables OR Jigs 9

B01D - Separation 6

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 4

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 4

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 3

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B04C - Apparatus Using Free Vortex Flow, e.g. Cyclones 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 2

B04B - Centrifuges 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 1

F16H - Gearing 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Superior Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Superior Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #5,248 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Superior Industries, Inc. against Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.1/100 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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