Where does Volvo Construction Equipment AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Volvo Construction Equipment AB ranks #1,194 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 Volvo Construction Equipment AB hold?

Volvo Construction Equipment AB holds 355 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 107 technology areas.

What is Volvo Construction Equipment AB's Innovation Score?

Volvo Construction Equipment AB has an Innovation Score of 61.6 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 Volvo Construction Equipment AB focus on?

Volvo Construction Equipment AB's top technology area is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting) with 198 patents, ranking #7 of 348 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 107 CPC subclasses total.

Is Volvo Construction Equipment AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Volvo Construction Equipment AB's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 Volvo Construction Equipment AB's patents?

Volvo Construction Equipment AB's patents average 11.7 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 Volvo Construction Equipment 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

Volvo Construction Equipment AB

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 355 granted patents across 107 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: E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Volvo ranks #1,194 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 355 patents across 107 technology areas.

#1,194
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.6/100): 11.7
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1194 · Foreign Corporation #1,194 · 355 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 355 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,194/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Technology
CPC-WIDE E02F · 107 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Technology AG (±1 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 Volvo’s 61.6 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 20.3 pts (33%) Velocity 9.2 pts (15%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Osaka University · near

62
Volvo Construction… · this assignee

62
Icahn School OF… · near

62
R J Reynolds Tobacco · near

62
Sick · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Volvo's Innovation Score is 61.6/100 (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 Volvo?

Each dot is one of Volvo’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). Volvo’s own 11.7 claims/patent is at or below the 13.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Volvo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Volvo Construction Equipment AB received 146 grants versus 186 in 2015–2019 (-22% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 45 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 21. Lead class E02F accounts for 55.8% of the portfolio across 107 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage (#1,190) and Headway Technologies, Inc. (#1,198).

Volvo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Volvo Construction Equipment AB moved from 75 to 104 grants (1.39x 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 #534. See the growth leaderboard.

Valeo Systemes d'…

357
Beijing Dajia Int…

356
Beijing Lenovo So…

356
Shiseido

356
Volvo Constructio… ◀

355
ABB Technology

354
Audio-technica

354
Doosan Heavy Indu…

354
Headway

354

What this shows Volvo holds 355 patents at rank #1,194, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Volvo

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,194 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E02F (Dredging)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Volvo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E02F (Dredging), Volvo ranks #7 of 348 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Osaka University 62 Sick AG 62 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company 62 Icahn School OF Medicine AT Mount Sinai 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.7 here).

Riverpoint Medical, LLC 11.7 avg Teijin Limited 11.8 avg Primax Electronics Ltd. 11.7 avg Maxell, Ltd. 11.8 avg

Volvo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Volvo Construction Equipment AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	8.5%
2016	44	12.4%
2017	34	9.6%
2018	45	12.7%
2019	33	9.3%
2020	21	5.9%
2021	21	5.9%
2022	30	8.5%
2023	37	10.4%
2024	37	10.4%
2025partial year	23	6.5%

Which technologies does Volvo Construction Equipment AB patent most?

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 198

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 102

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 40

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 39

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 35

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 33

E01C - Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair 31

F16H - Gearing 31

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 29

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 13

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 13

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 13

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 12

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 11

Top 15 of 107 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

Volvo Construction Equipment AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Volvo Construction Equipment AB's lead technology class is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting), 55.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E02F
Ranked #1,194 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Volvo Construction Equipment AB against Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.6/100 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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