Where does Volvo Truck Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Volvo Truck Corporation ranks #374 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 Truck Corporation hold?

Volvo Truck Corporation holds 1,171 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 161 technology areas.

What is Volvo Truck Corporation's Innovation Score?

Volvo Truck Corporation has an Innovation Score of 70.6 out of 100 (top 1% 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 Truck Corporation focus on?

Volvo Truck Corporation's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 356 patents, ranking #33 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 161 CPC subclasses total.

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

Volvo Truck Corporation's recent grant velocity is +277% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Volvo Truck Corporation's patents average 15.2 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 Truck 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 Truck Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,171 granted patents across 161 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Volvo ranks #374 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,171 patents across 161 technology areas.

#374
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.6/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +277%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R374 · Foreign Corporation #374 · 1,171 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #374/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Quanta Computer
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 161 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +277% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Quanta Computer Inc. (±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 70.6 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 24.4 pts (35%) Velocity 12.0 pts (17%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chengdu Qinchuan… · near

71
Textron Innovations · near

71
Toshiba · near

71
Toyota Jidosha · near

71
Volvo Truck · this assignee

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Volvo's Innovation Score is 70.6/100 (top 1% 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 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 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.

How Volvo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Volvo Truck Corporation received 721 grants versus 191 in 2015–2019 (+277% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 253 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 15. Lead class Y02T accounts for 30.4% of the portfolio across 161 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation (#370) and Disco Corporation (#378).

Volvo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Volvo Truck Corporation moved from 285 to 515 grants (1.81x 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 #266. See the growth leaderboard.

Karsten Manufactu…

1,177
Kla-tencor

1,173
Smith & Nephew

1,172
Quanta Computer

1,171
Volvo Truck ◀

1,171
Syngenta Particip…

1,167
Sprint Spectrum

1,166
Dai Nippon Printi…

1,164
Disco

1,157

What this shows Volvo holds 1,171 patents at rank #374, 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 #374 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). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Volvo ranks #33 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Textron Innovations Inc. 71 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 71 Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha 71 Chengdu Qinchuan IOT Technology Co., Ltd. 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

Otis Elevator Company 15.2 avg Symbol Technologies, LLC 15.2 avg Cytec Industries, Inc. 15.2 avg Beijing Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd. 15.2 avg

Volvo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 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.

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Volvo Truck Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	15	1.3%
2017	40	3.4%
2018	57	4.9%
2019	79	6.7%
2020	98	8.4%
2021	108	9.2%
2022	119	10.2%
2023	143	12.2%
2024	253	21.6%
2025partial year	259	22.1%

Which technologies does Volvo Truck Corporation patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 356

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 202

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 181

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 176

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 149

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 141

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 118

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 118

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 117

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 115

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 112

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 101

F16H - Gearing 93

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 71

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 57

Top 15 of 161 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 Truck Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Volvo Truck Corporation's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 30.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #374 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Volvo Truck Corporation against Karsten Manufacturing Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.6/100 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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