Where does Volvo Penta Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Volvo Penta Corporation ranks #10,816 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 Penta Corporation hold?

Volvo Penta Corporation holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Volvo Penta Corporation's Innovation Score?

Volvo Penta Corporation has an Innovation Score of 60.5 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 Penta Corporation focus on?

Volvo Penta Corporation's top technology area is B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering) with 20 patents, ranking #14 of 250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Is Volvo Penta Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Volvo Penta Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for Volvo Penta Corporation's patents?

Volvo Penta Corporation's patents average 15.1 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 Volvo Penta Corporation 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 Penta Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 31 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Volvo ranks #10,816 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 31 technology areas.

#10,816
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.5/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10816 · Foreign Corporation #10,816 · 29 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,816/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Unlimiter MFA
CPC-FOCUS B63H · 31 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Unlimiter MFA Co., Ltd. (±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 Volvo’s 60.5 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 11.7 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 19.7 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hunt Energy… · near

61
Outrider · near

61
University of… · near

61
Volvo Penta · this assignee

61
Xi'an University of… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Volvo's Innovation Score is 60.5/100 (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 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Volvo's grants concentrate

Volvo Penta Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 69% of grants classified under B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Volvo sits between Unlimiter MFA Co., Ltd. and Vision Ease, LP.

Volvo's three-year grant acceleration

Volvo Penta Corporation shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Unlimiter MFA

29
Upside Foods

29
Valeo Kapec

29
Vectura Delivery…

29
Valo Health

29
Vector Launch

29
Viiv Healthcare

29
Vision Ease

29
Volvo Penta ◀

29

What this shows Volvo holds 29 patents at rank #10,811, 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 #10,811 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering)

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 B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering), Volvo ranks #14 of 250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Hunt Energy Enterprises, L.L.C. 61 Outrider Technologies, Inc. 61 University of Rochester 61 Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology 60

Volvo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 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 · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Volvo Penta Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	6.9%
2022	3	10.3%
2023	10	34.5%
2024	7	24.1%
2025partial year	7	24.1%

Which technologies does Volvo Penta Corporation patent most?

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 20

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 11

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 6

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 4

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 3

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

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

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 2

C23F - Non-mechanical Removal OF Metallic Material From Surface ; Inhibiting Corrosion OF Metallic Material OR Incrustation IN GENERAL; Multi-step Processes FOR Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material Involving AT Least ONE Process Provided FOR IN Class C23 AND AT Least ONE Process Covered BY Subclass C21d 2

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 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

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

Top 15 of 31 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 Penta Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Volvo Penta Corporation's lead technology class is B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering), 69% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63H
Ranked #10,816 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Volvo Penta Corporation against Unlimiter MFA Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.5/100 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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