Where does Volvo Lastvagnar AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Volvo Lastvagnar AB ranks #2,086 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 Lastvagnar AB hold?

Volvo Lastvagnar AB holds 190 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 64 technology areas.

What is Volvo Lastvagnar AB's Innovation Score?

Volvo Lastvagnar AB has an Innovation Score of 49.0 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Volvo Lastvagnar AB's recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Lastvagnar AB's patents?

Volvo Lastvagnar AB's patents average 7.4 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 Volvo Lastvagnar 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 Lastvagnar AB

Q: What technology areas does Volvo Lastvagnar AB focus on?

Volvo Lastvagnar AB's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 36 patents. Grants appear in 64 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 190 granted patents across 64 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Volvo ranks #2,086 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 190 patents across 64 technology areas.

#2,086
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.0/100): 7.4
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2086 · Foreign Corporation #2,086 · 190 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 190 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,086/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH RichWave Technology
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 64 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: RichWave Technology Corp. (±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
Neoperl · near

49
Orthosoft ULC · near

49
Stoneage · near

49
TCI · near

49
Volvo Lastvagnar AB · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Volvo's Innovation Score is 49.0/100 (top 15% 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.

How Volvo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Volvo Lastvagnar AB received 6 grants versus 184 in 2015–2019 (-97% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 82 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 1. Lead class Y02T accounts for 18.9% of the portfolio across 64 subclasses. Volume neighbours: RichWave Technology Corp. (#2,082) and Okuma Corporation (#2,090).

Volvo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Volvo Lastvagnar AB moved from 23 to 5 grants (0.22x 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 #3,073. See the growth leaderboard.

Richwave Technolo…

190
Rigel Pharmaceuti…

190
Shionogi &

190
Smith & Nephew Or…

190
Volvo Lastvagnar… ◀

190
Allscripts Softwa…

189
Chiesi Farmaceuti…

189
GN Audio A/S

189
Okuma

189

What this shows Volvo holds 190 patents at rank #2,086, 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 #2,086 in granted patent volume.

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

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Neoperl GMBH 49 TCI Co., Ltd. 49 Stoneage, Inc. 49 Orthosoft ULC 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.4 here).

RB Distribution, Inc. 7.4 avg Nanjing University OF Posts AND Telecommunications 7.4 avg Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH 7.4 avg Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. 7.4 avg

Volvo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

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 Lastvagnar AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	37	19.5%
2016	25	13.2%
2017	18	9.5%
2018	82	43.2%
2019	22	11.6%
2020	1	0.5%
2022	1	0.5%
2023	3	1.6%
2024	1	0.5%

Which technologies does Volvo Lastvagnar AB patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 36

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 29

F16H - Gearing 17

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 16

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 14

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 11

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 10

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 9

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 9

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 9

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 7

B01D - Separation 6

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

Top 15 of 64 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,086

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Volvo Lastvagnar AB's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 18.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #2,086 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Volvo Lastvagnar AB against RichWave Technology Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.0/100 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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