Where does Ag Leader Technology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ag Leader Technology ranks #7,360 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 Ag Leader Technology hold?

Ag Leader Technology holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Ag Leader Technology's Innovation Score?

Ag Leader Technology has an Innovation Score of 50.4 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ag Leader Technology's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ag Leader Technology's recent grant velocity is +17% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Ag Leader Technology's patents?

Ag Leader Technology's patents average 17.9 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 Ag Leader Technology 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 US Corporation

Ag Leader Technology

Q: What technology areas does Ag Leader Technology focus on?

Ag Leader Technology's top technology area is A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General) with 22 patents, ranking #18 of 251 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 36 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: A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ag ranks #7,360 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 36 technology areas.

#7,360
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.4/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7360 · US Corporation #7,360 · 44 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,360/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Accuride International
CPC-FOCUS A01B · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Accuride International GmbH (±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 Ag’s 50.4 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 13.1 pts (26%) Velocity 5.3 pts (11%) Breadth 21.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Acergy France SAS · near

50
Sukup Manufacturing · near

50
Ampere Computing · near

50
Leader Technology · this assignee

50
UNIVERSITÉ DE… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ag's Innovation Score is 50.4/100 (top 13% 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 Ag?

Each dot is one of Ag’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). Ag’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ag's grants concentrate

Ag Leader Technology is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ag sits between AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc. and Anvil International, LLC.

Ag's three-year grant acceleration

Ag Leader Technology shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

AVL Powertrain En…

44
Axcess Global Sci…

44
Accuride Internat…

44
Acorda Therapeuti…

44
Agbiome

44
Agility Fuel Syst…

44
Amrad Manufacturi…

44
Anvil Internation…

44
Leader Technology ◀

44

What this shows Ag holds 44 patents at rank #7,369, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ag

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,369 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR Forestry)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ag, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR Forestry), Ag ranks #18 of 251 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bourgogne 50 Ampere Computing LLC 50 Sukup Manufacturing Co. 50 Acergy France SAS 50

Ag's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Ag Leader Technology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.3%
2016	1	2.3%
2017	6	13.6%
2018	4	9.1%
2019	6	13.6%
2020	7	15.9%
2021	2	4.5%
2022	4	9.1%
2023	5	11.4%
2024	3	6.8%
2025partial year	5	11.4%

Which technologies does Ag Leader Technology patent most?

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 22

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 15

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 9

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 9

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 7

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

H04Q - Selecting 4

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 3

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

Top 15 of 36 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Ag Leader Technology's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ag Leader Technology's lead technology class is A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01B
Ranked #7,360 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ag Leader Technology against AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.