Where does UFI Filters S.P.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UFI Filters S.P.A. ranks #9,395 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 UFI Filters S.P.A. hold?

UFI Filters S.P.A. holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is UFI Filters S.P.A.'s Innovation Score?

UFI Filters S.P.A. has an Innovation Score of 55.8 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does UFI Filters S.P.A. focus on?

UFI Filters S.P.A.'s top technology area is B01D (Separation) with 28 patents, ranking #170 of 3,536 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is UFI Filters S.P.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

UFI Filters S.P.A.'s recent grant velocity is +167% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for UFI Filters S.P.A.'s patents?

UFI Filters S.P.A.'s patents average 16.4 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 UFI Filters S.P.A. 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

UFI Filters S.P.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 15 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: B01D (Separation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, UFI ranks #9,395 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 15 technology areas.

#9,395
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.8/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +167%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9395 · Foreign Corporation #9,395 · 34 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,395/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Technische Universit…
CPC-FOCUS B01D · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +167% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Technische Universität Darmstadt (±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 UFI’s 55.8 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 12.3 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 13.7 pts (25%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mechoshade Systems · near

56
Sinteff TTO AS · near

56
UFI Filters S P A · this assignee

56
Comet USA · near

56
Hefei Midea… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows UFI's Innovation Score is 55.8/100 (top 7% 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 UFI?

Each dot is one of UFI’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). UFI’s own 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where UFI's grants concentrate

UFI Filters S.P.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 82.4% of grants classified under B01D (Separation). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, UFI sits between Technische Universität Darmstadt and Unanimous A. I., Inc..

UFI's three-year grant acceleration

UFI Filters S.P.A. shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Technische Univer…

34
Tervis Tumbler

34
The Australian Na…

34
Trifo

34
Universal Robots…

34
UniversitÉ DE Bou…

34
Usound

34
Unanimous A I

34
UFI Filters S P A ◀

34

What this shows UFI holds 34 patents at rank #9,395, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near UFI

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,395 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01D (Separation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for UFI, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01D (Separation), UFI ranks #170 of 3,536 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Sinteff TTO AS 56 Mechoshade Systems, LLC 56 Comet Technologies USA, Inc. 56 Hefei Midea Refrigerator Co., Ltd. 56

UFI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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UFI Filters S.P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.9%
2016	4	11.8%
2017	2	5.9%
2019	2	5.9%
2020	2	5.9%
2021	2	5.9%
2022	6	17.6%
2023	6	17.6%
2024	8	23.5%
2025partial year	1	2.9%

Which technologies does UFI Filters S.P.A. patent most?

B01D - Separation 28

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 13

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 12

F16N - Lubricating 4

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 3

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

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 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 1

Top 15 of 15 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

UFI Filters S.P.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UFI Filters S.P.A.'s lead technology class is B01D (Separation), 82.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01D
Ranked #9,395 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UFI Filters S.P.A. against Technische Universität Darmstadt, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.