Where does Universal Robots A/s rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Universal Robots A/s ranks #9,397 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Universal Robots A/s hold?

Universal Robots A/s holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Universal Robots A/s's Innovation Score?

Universal Robots A/s has an Innovation Score of 38.6 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Universal Robots A/s's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Universal Robots A/s's recent grant velocity is +567% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Universal Robots A/s's patents?

Universal Robots A/s's patents average 16.1 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 Universal Robots A/s 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

Universal Robots A/s

Q: What technology areas does Universal Robots A/s focus on?

Universal Robots A/s's top technology area is B25J (MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES) with 22 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B25J (MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Universal ranks #9,397 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 9 technology areas.

#9,397
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.6/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +567%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9397 · Foreign Corporation #9,397 · 34 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,397/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Tervis Tumbler
CPC-NARROW B25J · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +567% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tervis Tumbler 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Affibody AB · near

39
Excel Industries · near

39
Mcwane · near

39
Nuvotronics · near

39
Universal Robots A/s · this assignee

39
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Universal Robots A/s stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-NARROW, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #9,397 of 50,000; Innovation Score 38.6/100 sits in the top 40% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Tervis Tumbler Company (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Universal Robots A/s has been granted 34 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing Universal Robots A/s at #9,397 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 9 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 16.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in B25J (MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES). As a Foreign Corporation, Universal Robots A/s is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Universal sits between Tervis Tumbler Company (34 patents, rank #9,392) and Vektor Medical, Inc. (34 patents, rank #9,400) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 38.6/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 20 grants, compared with 3 in the 2015–2019 window, a +567% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Universal Robots A/s's 16.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 9 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Tervis Tumbler

34
The Australian Na…

34
Trifo

34
UFI Filters S P A

34
UniversitÉ DE Bou…

34
Usound

34
Unanimous A I

34
Vektor Medical

34
Universal Robots… ◀

34

What this shows Universal holds 34 patents at rank #9,396, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Universal

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,396 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25J (Manipulators)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Universal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Excel Industries, Inc. 39 Affibody AB 39 Mcwane, Inc. 39 Nuvotronics, Inc 39

Universal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Universal Robots A/s patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.9%
2017	1	2.9%
2019	1	2.9%
2020	5	14.7%
2021	5	14.7%
2022	2	5.9%
2023	5	14.7%
2024	3	8.8%
2025partial year	11	32.4%

Which technologies does Universal Robots A/s patent most?

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 22

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 18

Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS 5

F16D - COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; CLUTCHES; BRAKES 2

F16H - GEARING 2

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 1

G01L - MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE 1

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 1

G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,397

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

38.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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